Statistics

Species of Nymphaeaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 8 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 444 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Nymphaeaceae. Of these 56 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 71 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Nymphaeaceae. 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 444 species names for the family Nymphaeaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	56	12.6%
◕	Synonym	158	35.6%
◕	Unplaced	2	0.5%
◕	Unassessed	228	51.4%

All names

The status of the 515 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Nymphaeaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	77	15.0%
◕	Synonym	203	39.4%
◕	Unplaced	2	0.4%
◕	Unassessed	233	45.2%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate
• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 444 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Nymphaeaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	51	137	0	0	188	42.3%
	Low confidence	5	21	2	228	256	57.7%

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