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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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.

Compositae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Compositae

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

Statistics

Species of Compositae contained within The Plant List belong to 1,765 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 104,365 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Compositae. Of these 27,773 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 21,806 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Compositae. 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 104,365 species names for the family Compositae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 27,773 26.6%
Synonym 44,675 42.8%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 31,917 30.6%

All names

The status of the 126,171 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Compositae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 32,006 25.4%
Synonym 61,549 48.8%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 32,616 25.9%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 104,365 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Compositae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 1 0 0 1 0.0%
Medium confidence 25,844 38,383 0 0 64,227 61.5%
Low confidence 1,929 6,291 0 31,917 40,137 38.5%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
TICA 27,563 44,378 0 31,701 0 103,642 99.3%
Tropicos 210 296 0 216 0 722 0.7%
WCSP 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0%