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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Ranunculaceae

Ranunculaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Ranunculaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Ranunculaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 65 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 9,060 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Ranunculaceae. Of these 2,377 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 4,119 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Ranunculaceae. 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 9,060 species names for the family Ranunculaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,377	26.2%
◕	Synonym	3,260	36.0%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	3,422	37.8%

All names

The status of the 13,179 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Ranunculaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,769	21.0%
◕	Synonym	6,690	50.8%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	3,719	28.2%

Of the species names,

69 are recorded as invalid
184 are recorded as illegitimate
10 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 8 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 9,060 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Ranunculaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	2	0	0	2	0.0%
Medium confidence	2,317	3,056	0	0	5,373	59.3%
Low confidence	60	202	1	3,422	3,685	40.7%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
TICA	2	3	0	3	0	8	0.1%
RJP	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.0%
Tropicos	470	531	0	95	0	1,096	12.1%
WCSP	0	2	0	0	0	2	0.0%
WCSP (in review)	1,905	2,724	1	3,323	8	7,953	87.8%