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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Euphorbiaceae

Euphorbiaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Euphorbiaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Euphorbiaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 228 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 16,918 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Euphorbiaceae. Of these 6,547 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 4,634 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Euphorbiaceae. 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 16,918 species names for the family Euphorbiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6,547	38.7%
◕	Synonym	9,874	58.4%
◕	Unplaced	8	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	489	2.9%

All names

The status of the 21,552 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Euphorbiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6,835	31.7%
◕	Synonym	14,212	65.9%
◕	Unplaced	8	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	497	2.3%

Of the species names,

308 are recorded as invalid
814 are recorded as illegitimate
8 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 5 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 16,918 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Euphorbiaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	6,502	9,561	0	0	16,063	94.9%
Medium confidence	41	209	0	0	250	1.5%
Low confidence	4	104	8	489	605	3.6%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
TICA	0	0	0	12	0	12	0.1%
RJP	0	0	1	1	0	2	0.0%
Tropicos	41	207	1	190	0	439	2.6%
WCSP	6,506	9,655	0	248	5	16,409	97.0%
WCSP (in review)	0	12	6	38	0	56	0.3%