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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Malvaceae

Malvaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Malvaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Malvaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 245 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 14,539 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Malvaceae. Of these 4,465 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,802 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Malvaceae. 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 14,539 species names for the family Malvaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	4,465	30.7%
◕	Synonym	5,190	35.7%
◕	Unplaced	28	0.2%
◕	Unassessed	4,856	33.4%

All names

The status of the 16,341 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Malvaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	4,652	28.5%
◕	Synonym	6,764	41.4%
◕	Unplaced	30	0.2%
◕	Unassessed	4,895	30.0%

Of the species names,

55 are recorded as invalid
205 are recorded as illegitimate
10 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 3 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 14,539 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Malvaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	7	0	0	7	0.0%
Medium confidence	4,346	4,863	0	0	9,209	63.3%
Low confidence	119	320	28	4,856	5,323	36.6%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
TICA	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.0%
RJP	0	0	0	7	0	7	0.0%
Tropicos	1,666	1,859	0	205	0	3,730	25.7%
WCSP	0	7	0	3	0	10	0.1%
WCSP (in review)	2,799	3,324	28	4,640	3	10,791	74.2%