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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Ricinus

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Ricinus communis L.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 74 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Ricinus. Of these 1 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 131 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Ricinus. 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 74 species names for the genus Ricinus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1	1.4%
◕	Synonym	71	95.9%
◕	Unplaced	2	2.7%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 205 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Ricinus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1	0.5%
◕	Synonym	202	98.5%
◕	Unplaced	2	1.0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 3 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 74 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Ricinus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	1	70	0	0	71	95.9%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	1.4%
	Low confidence	0	0	2	0	2	2.7%

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