Statistics

Species of Caricaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 6 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 199 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Caricaceae. Of these 43 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 26 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Caricaceae. 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 199 species names for the family Caricaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	43	21.6%
◕	Synonym	139	69.8%
◕	Unplaced	2	1.0%
◕	Unassessed	15	7.5%

All names

The status of the 225 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Caricaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	48	21.3%
◕	Synonym	160	71.1%
◕	Unplaced	2	0.9%
◕	Unassessed	15	6.7%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 199 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Caricaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	42	138	0	0	180	90.5%
	Low confidence	1	1	2	15	19	9.5%

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