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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Boraginaceae

Boraginaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

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

Statistics

Species of Boraginaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 155 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 10,551 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Boraginaceae. Of these 2,686 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,501 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Boraginaceae. 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 10,551 species names for the family Boraginaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,686	25.5%
◕	Synonym	3,858	36.6%
◕	Unplaced	14	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	3,993	37.8%

All names

The status of the 12,052 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Boraginaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,976	24.7%
◕	Synonym	4,973	41.3%
◕	Unplaced	14	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	4,089	33.9%

Of the species names,

70 are recorded as invalid
133 are recorded as illegitimate
4 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 9 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 10,551 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Boraginaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	6	0	0	6	0.1%
Medium confidence	2,500	3,323	0	0	5,823	55.2%
Low confidence	186	529	14	3,993	4,722	44.8%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
iPlants	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.0%
TICA	0	0	2	6	0	8	0.1%
Tropicos	1,090	1,074	2	177	0	2,343	22.2%
WCSP	0	5	0	2	0	7	0.1%
WCSP (in review)	1,596	2,778	10	3,808	9	8,192	77.6%