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- The Plant List
- Angiosperms
- Capparaceae
- Angiosperms
Capparaceae
The family Capparaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).
Statistics are at the bottom of the page.
Genera in Capparaceae
- Acome
- Anisocapparis
- Apophyllum
- Atamisquea
- Bachmannia
- Beautempsia
- Belencita
- Borthwickia
- Boscia
- Bosciopsis
- Buchholzia
- Buhsia
- Busbeckea
- Cadaba
- Calanthea
- Capparicordis
- Capparidastrum
- Capparis
- Cladostemon
- Cleoserrata
- Colicodendron
- Courbonia
- Crateva
- Cristatella
- Cynophalla
- Dhofaria
- Dipterygium
- Euadenia
- Forchhammeria
- Hermupoa
- Hypselandra
- Isexina
- Isomeris
- Maerua
- Meeboldia
- Morisonia
- Neocalyptrocalyx
- Neothorelia
- Nevosmila
- Niebuhria
- Oceanopapaver
- Poilanedora
- Pteroloma
- Pteropetalum
- Puccionia
- Quadrella
- Ritchiea
- Roydsia
- Stefaninia
- Steriphoma
- Stixis
- Streblocarpus
- Stuebelia
- Thilachium
- Thylacium
- Tirania
- Triclanthera
- Tylachium
A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Capparaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .
Statistics
Species of Capparaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 34 plant genera.
The Plant List includes 1,487 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Capparaceae. Of these 449 are accepted species names.
The Plant List includes a further 223 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Capparaceae. 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 1,487 species names for the family Capparaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 449 | 30.2% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 731 | 49.2% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 1 | 0.1% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 306 | 20.6% |
All names
The status of the 1,710 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Capparaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 490 | 28.7% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 911 | 53.3% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 1 | 0.1% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 308 | 18.0% |
Of the species names,
- 13 are recorded as invalid
- 47 are recorded as illegitimate
- 1 are recorded as a spelling variant
The confidence with which the status of the 1,487 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Capparaceae, are assigned as follows:
| Confidence level | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
High confidence | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.1% |
 |
Medium confidence | 435 | 682 | 0 | 0 | 1,117 | 75.1% |
 |
Low confidence | 14 | 48 | 1 | 306 | 369 | 24.8% |
The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Capparaceae is as follows:
| Source of record | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Misapplied | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TICA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.1% |
| Tropicos | 81 | 102 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 197 | 13.2% |
| WCSP | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0.3% |
| WCSP (in review) | 367 | 625 | 1 | 290 | 0 | 1,283 | 86.3% |