Rubiaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Rubiaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Rubiaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 617 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 31,167 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Rubiaceae. Of these 13,548 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 5,170 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Rubiaceae. 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 31,167 species names for the family Rubiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	13,548	43.5%
◕	Synonym	16,302	52.3%
◕	Unplaced	682	2.2%
◕	Unassessed	635	2.0%

All names

The status of the 36,337 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Rubiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	14,506	39.9%
◕	Synonym	20,500	56.4%
◕	Unplaced	683	1.9%
◕	Unassessed	648	1.8%

Of these names,

505 are recorded as invalid
1,031 are recorded as illegitimate
38 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 13 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 31,167 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Rubiaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	13,464	15,614	0	0	29,078	93.3%
Medium confidence	62	487	0	0	549	1.8%
Low confidence	22	201	682	635	1,540	4.9%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
iPlants	0	2	0	0	0	2	0.0%
TICA	2	1	0	17	0	20	0.1%
Tropicos	62	491	0	567	0	1,120	3.6%
WCSP	13,484	15,795	681	48	13	30,021	96.3%
WCSP (in review)	0	13	1	3	0	17	0.1%