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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Amaranthaceae

Amaranthaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Amaranthaceae

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A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Amaranthaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Amaranthaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 178 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 7,887 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Amaranthaceae. Of these 2,052 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2,162 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Amaranthaceae. 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 7,887 species names for the family Amaranthaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,052	26.0%
◕	Synonym	3,450	43.7%
◕	Unplaced	16	0.2%
◕	Unassessed	2,369	30.0%

All names

The status of the 10,049 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Amaranthaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,212	22.0%
◕	Synonym	5,399	53.7%
◕	Unplaced	16	0.2%
◕	Unassessed	2,422	24.1%

Of the species names,

84 are recorded as invalid
182 are recorded as illegitimate
4 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 5 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 7,887 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Amaranthaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	2	0	0	2	0.0%
Medium confidence	1,905	3,025	0	0	4,930	62.5%
Low confidence	147	423	16	2,369	2,955	37.5%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Amaranthaceae is as follows:

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
IPNI	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.0%
TICA	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.0%
Tropicos	531	719	0	129	0	1,379	17.5%
WCSP	0	2	0	4	0	6	0.1%
WCSP (in review)	1,521	2,729	16	2,234	5	6,500	82.4%