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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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

Euphorbiaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Euphorbiaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Euphorbiaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 229 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 16,849 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Euphorbiaceae. Of these 6,511 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 4,394 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Euphorbiaceae. 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 16,849 species names for the family Euphorbiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 6,511 38.6%
Synonym 9,879 58.6%
Unplaced 211 1.3%
Unassessed 248 1.5%

All names

The status of the 21,243 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Euphorbiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 6,974 32.8%
Synonym 13,797 64.9%
Unplaced 214 1.0%
Unassessed 258 1.2%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 16,849 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Euphorbiaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 6,465 9,470 0 0 15,935 94.6%
Medium confidence 22 254 0 0 276 1.6%
Low confidence 24 155 211 248 638 3.8%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 22 253 0 192 0 467 2.8%
WCSP 6,489 9,616 211 45 4 16,365 97.1%
WCSP (in review) 0 10 0 11 0 21 0.1%