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The family Compositae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).
Statistics are at the bottom of the page.
A list of all accepted names in Compositae is available in CSV format.
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.
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% |
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 | |
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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% |