The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Nyctaginaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Nyctaginaceae

A list of all accepted names in Nyctaginaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Nyctaginaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 32 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 1,410 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Nyctaginaceae. Of these 391 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 252 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Nyctaginaceae. 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 1,410 species names for the family Nyctaginaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 391 27.7%
Synonym 562 39.9%
Unplaced 40 2.8%
Unassessed 417 29.6%

All names

The status of the 1,662 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Nyctaginaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 426 25.6%
Synonym 754 45.4%
Unplaced 40 2.4%
Unassessed 442 26.6%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 1,410 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Nyctaginaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 1 0 0 1 0.1%
Medium confidence 366 457 0 0 823 58.4%
Low confidence 25 104 40 417 586 41.6%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the family Nyctaginaceae, are as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 99 265 0 71 0 435 30.9%
WCSP 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1%
WCSP (in review) 292 296 40 346 1 975 69.1%