The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

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

Pontederiaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Pontederiaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Pontederiaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 6 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 211 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Pontederiaceae. Of these 33 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 48 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Pontederiaceae. 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 211 species names for the family Pontederiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 33 15.6%
Synonym 172 81.5%
Unplaced 3 1.4%
Unassessed 3 1.4%

All names

The status of the 259 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Pontederiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 35 13.5%
Synonym 218 84.2%
Unplaced 3 1.2%
Unassessed 3 1.2%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 211 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Pontederiaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 33 160 0 0 193 91.5%
Medium confidence 0 11 0 0 11 5.2%
Low confidence 0 1 3 3 7 3.3%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 12 0 3 0 15 7.1%
WCSP 33 160 3 0 0 196 92.9%