Statistics

Species of Ephedraceae contained within The Plant List belong to 1 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 164 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Ephedraceae. Of these 70 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 84 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Ephedraceae. 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 164 species names for the family Ephedraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	70	42.7%
◕	Synonym	92	56.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	1.2%

All names

The status of the 248 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Ephedraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	78	31.5%
◕	Synonym	168	67.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	0.8%

Of the species names,

• 4 are recorded as invalid
• 8 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 164 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Ephedraceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	70	90	0	0	160	97.6%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	1.2%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	2	2	1.2%

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