The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Caricaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Caricaceae

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

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,

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:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 13 81 0 5 0 99 49.7%
WCSP (in review) 30 58 2 10 0 100 50.3%