Cucurbitaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Cucurbitaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Cucurbitaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 126 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 3,801 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Cucurbitaceae. Of these 989 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 631 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Cucurbitaceae. 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 3,801 species names for the family Cucurbitaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	989	26.0%
◕	Synonym	1,631	42.9%
◕	Unplaced	78	2.1%
◕	Unassessed	1,103	29.0%

All names

The status of the 4,432 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Cucurbitaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,049	23.7%
◕	Synonym	2,185	49.3%
◕	Unplaced	78	1.8%
◕	Unassessed	1,120	25.3%

Of these names,

37 are recorded as invalid
39 are recorded as illegitimate
2 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 3,801 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Cucurbitaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
Medium confidence	937	1,440	0	0	2,377	62.5%
Low confidence	52	191	78	1,103	1,424	37.5%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	422	590	0	99	0	1,111	29.2%
WCSP (in review)	567	1,041	78	1,004	1	2,691	70.8%