The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Malpighiaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Malpighiaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Malpighiaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 81 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 3,030 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Malpighiaceae. Of these 1,301 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 575 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Malpighiaceae. 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 3,030 species names for the family Malpighiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 1,301 42.9%
Synonym 1,129 37.3%
Unplaced 2 0.1%
Unassessed 598 19.7%

All names

The status of the 3,605 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Malpighiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 1,327 36.8%
Synonym 1,672 46.4%
Unplaced 2 0.1%
Unassessed 604 16.8%

Of the species names,

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 3,030 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Malpighiaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 1,272 1,051 0 0 2,323 76.7%
Low confidence 29 78 2 598 707 23.3%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
RJP 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0%
Tropicos 504 342 2 29 0 877 28.9%
WCSP (in review) 797 787 0 568 1 2,152 71.0%