The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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

Caryophyllaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Caryophyllaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Caryophyllaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 88 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 10,320 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Caryophyllaceae. Of these 2,295 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2,358 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Caryophyllaceae. 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 10,320 species names for the family Caryophyllaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 2,295 22.2%
◕ Synonym 3,900 37.8%
◕ Unplaced 464 4.5%
◕ Unassessed 3,661 35.5%

All names

The status of the 12,678 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Caryophyllaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 2,717 21.4%
◕ Synonym 5,731 45.2%
◕ Unplaced 464 3.7%
◕ Unassessed 3,766 29.7%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 10,320 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Caryophyllaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 1 0 0 1 0.0%
Medium confidence 2,202 3,472 0 0 5,674 55.0%
Low confidence 93 427 464 3,661 4,645 45.0%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 524 888 0 69 0 1,481 14.4%
WCSP 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0%
WCSP (in review) 1,771 3,011 464 3,592 4 8,842 85.7%