Urticaceae

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

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Genera in Urticaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Urticaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 52 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 4,747 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Urticaceae. Of these 1,303 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 501 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Urticaceae. 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 4,747 species names for the family Urticaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,303	27.4%
◕	Synonym	1,519	32.0%
◕	Unplaced	37	0.8%
◕	Unassessed	1,888	39.8%

All names

The status of the 5,248 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Urticaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,406	26.8%
◕	Synonym	1,904	36.3%
◕	Unplaced	37	0.7%
◕	Unassessed	1,901	36.2%

Of these names,

24 are recorded as invalid
45 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 4,747 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Urticaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	4	0	0	4	0.1%
Medium confidence	1,242	1,284	0	0	2,526	53.2%
Low confidence	61	231	37	1,888	2,217	46.7%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
Tropicos	354	606	0	97	1,057	22.3%
WCSP	0	4	0	0	4	0.1%
WCSP (in review)	949	909	37	1,791	3,686	77.6%