The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Gentianaceae

The family Gentianaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Gentianaceae

A list of all accepted names in Gentianaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Gentianaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 87 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 5,878 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Gentianaceae. Of these 1,500 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,122 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Gentianaceae. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 5,878 species names for the family Gentianaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 1,500 25.5%
Synonym 2,920 49.7%
Unplaced 129 2.2%
Unassessed 1,329 22.6%

All names

The status of the 7,000 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Gentianaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 1,717 24.5%
Synonym 3,777 54.0%
Unplaced 130 1.9%
Unassessed 1,376 19.7%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 5,878 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Gentianaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 15 0 0 15 0.3%
Medium confidence 1,405 2,674 0 0 4,079 69.4%
Low confidence 95 231 129 1,329 1,784 30.4%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the family Gentianaceae, are as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 356 630 0 79 0 1,065 18.1%
WCSP 0 15 0 0 0 15 0.3%
WCSP (in review) 1,144 2,275 129 1,250 0 4,798 81.6%