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- The Plant List
- Angiosperms
- Brassicaceae
- Brassica
- Brassicaceae
- Angiosperms
Brassica
The genus Brassica is in the family Brassicaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).
Statistics are at the end of the page.
Species in Brassica
See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.
Statistics
The Plant List includes 384 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Brassica. Of these 39 are accepted species names.
The Plant List includes a further 585 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Brassica. 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 384 species names for the genus Brassica recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 39 | 10.2% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 292 | 76.0% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 1 | 0.3% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 52 | 13.5% |
All names
The status of the 969 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Brassica recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 73 | 7.5% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 839 | 86.6% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 1 | 0.1% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 56 | 5.8% |
Of the species names,
- 11 are recorded as invalid
- 12 are recorded as illegitimate
- 2 are recorded as a spelling variant
A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.
The confidence with which the status of the 384 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Brassica, are assigned as follows:
| Confidence level | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
High confidence | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
 |
Medium confidence | 36 | 288 | 0 | 0 | 324 | 84.4% |
 |
Low confidence | 3 | 4 | 1 | 52 | 60 | 15.6% |
The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Brassica is as follows:
| Source of record | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Misapplied | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropicos | 1 | 62 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 68 | 17.7% |
| WCSP (in review) | 38 | 230 | 1 | 47 | 1 | 316 | 82.3% |