Malpighiaceae

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

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Genera in Malpighiaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Malpighiaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 81 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 3,023 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Malpighiaceae. Of these 1,029 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 561 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Malpighiaceae. 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 3,023 species names for the family Malpighiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,029	34.0%
◕	Synonym	1,160	38.4%
◕	Unplaced	37	1.2%
◕	Unassessed	797	26.4%

All names

The status of the 3,584 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Malpighiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,051	29.3%
◕	Synonym	1,683	47.0%
◕	Unplaced	37	1.0%
◕	Unassessed	813	22.7%

Of these names,

6 are recorded as invalid
44 are recorded as illegitimate
1 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 3,023 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Malpighiaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
Medium confidence	996	1,059	0	0	2,055	68.0%
Low confidence	33	101	37	797	968	32.0%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	251	452	0	34	0	737	24.4%
WCSP (in review)	778	708	37	763	1	2,287	75.7%