The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Caricaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Caricaceae

A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Caricaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Caricaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 6 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 195 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Caricaceae. Of these 47 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 25 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Caricaceae. 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 195 species names for the family Caricaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 47 24.1%
Synonym 126 64.6%
Unplaced 5 2.6%
Unassessed 17 8.7%

All names

The status of the 220 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Caricaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 51 23.2%
Synonym 147 66.8%
Unplaced 5 2.3%
Unassessed 17 7.7%

Of the species names,

The confidence with which the status of the 195 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Caricaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 45 126 0 0 171 87.7%
Low confidence 2 0 5 17 24 12.3%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Caricaceae is as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 16 61 0 5 0 82 42.1%
WCSP (in review) 31 65 5 12 0 113 57.9%