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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Cucurbitaceae

Cucurbitaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Cucurbitaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Cucurbitaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 134 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 3,720 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Cucurbitaceae. Of these 965 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 695 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Cucurbitaceae. 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 3,720 species names for the family Cucurbitaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	965	25.9%
◕	Synonym	1,680	45.2%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	1,074	28.9%

All names

The status of the 4,415 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Cucurbitaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,007	22.8%
◕	Synonym	2,322	52.6%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	1,085	24.6%

Of the species names,

43 are recorded as invalid
48 are recorded as illegitimate
3 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 3,720 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Cucurbitaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
Medium confidence	911	1,518	0	0	2,429	65.3%
Low confidence	54	162	1	1,074	1,291	34.7%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
RJP	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.0%
Tropicos	348	458	0	61	0	867	23.3%
WCSP (in review)	617	1,222	1	1,012	1	2,852	76.7%