Malvaceae

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

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Genera in Malvaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Malvaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 236 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 14,258 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Malvaceae. Of these 3,704 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,685 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Malvaceae. 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 14,258 species names for the family Malvaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3,704	26.0%
◕	Synonym	5,370	37.7%
◕	Unplaced	132	0.9%
◕	Unassessed	5,052	35.4%

All names

The status of the 15,943 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Malvaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3,938	24.7%
◕	Synonym	6,757	42.4%
◕	Unplaced	132	0.8%
◕	Unassessed	5,116	32.1%

Of these names,

50 are recorded as invalid
161 are recorded as illegitimate
10 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 3 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 14,258 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Malvaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	6	0	0	6	0.0%
Medium confidence	3,606	4,931	0	0	8,537	59.9%
Low confidence	98	433	132	5,052	5,715	40.1%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	1,048	2,344	0	245	0	3,637	25.5%
WCSP	0	6	0	0	0	6	0.0%
WCSP (in review)	2,656	3,020	132	4,807	3	10,618	74.5%