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The family Malvaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).
Statistics are at the bottom of the page.
A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Malvaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .
Species of Malvaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 245 plant genera.
The Plant List includes 14,539 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Malvaceae. Of these 4,465 are accepted species names.
The Plant List includes a further 1,802 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Malvaceae. 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.
The status of the 14,539 species names for the family Malvaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
Status | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
◕ | Accepted | 4,465 | 30.7% |
◕ | Synonym | 5,190 | 35.7% |
◕ | Unplaced | 28 | 0.2% |
◕ | Unassessed | 4,856 | 33.4% |
The status of the 16,341 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Malvaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
Status | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
◕ | Accepted | 4,652 | 28.5% |
◕ | Synonym | 6,764 | 41.4% |
◕ | Unplaced | 30 | 0.2% |
◕ | Unassessed | 4,895 | 30.0% |
Of the species names,
A further 3 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.
The confidence with which the status of the 14,539 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Malvaceae, are assigned as follows:
Confidence level | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
High confidence | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0% | |
Medium confidence | 4,346 | 4,863 | 0 | 0 | 9,209 | 63.3% | |
Low confidence | 119 | 320 | 28 | 4,856 | 5,323 | 36.6% |
The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Malvaceae is as follows:
Source of record | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Misapplied | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TICA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% |
RJP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0.0% |
Tropicos | 1,666 | 1,859 | 0 | 205 | 0 | 3,730 | 25.7% |
WCSP | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0.1% |
WCSP (in review) | 2,799 | 3,324 | 28 | 4,640 | 3 | 10,791 | 74.2% |