Brassicaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Brassicaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Brassicaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 349 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 15,389 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Brassicaceae. Of these 3,501 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 5,298 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Brassicaceae. 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 15,389 species names for the family Brassicaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3,501	22.8%
◕	Synonym	8,968	58.3%
◕	Unplaced	434	2.8%
◕	Unassessed	2,486	16.2%

All names

The status of the 20,687 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Brassicaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	4,045	19.6%
◕	Synonym	13,566	65.6%
◕	Unplaced	437	2.1%
◕	Unassessed	2,639	12.8%

Of these names,

105 are recorded as invalid
325 are recorded as illegitimate
11 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 4 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 15,389 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Brassicaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
Medium confidence	3,379	8,435	0	0	11,814	76.8%
Low confidence	122	533	434	2,486	3,575	23.2%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
TICA	1	0	0	2	0	3	0.0%
Tropicos	1,070	3,353	0	166	0	4,589	29.8%
WCSP	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.0%
WCSP (in review)	2,430	5,615	434	2,317	4	10,800	70.2%