The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Brassicaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Brassicaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Brassicaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 349 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 15,389 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Brassicaceae. Of these 3,501 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 5,298 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Brassicaceae. 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 15,389 species names for the family Brassicaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 3,501 22.8%
Synonym 8,968 58.3%
Unplaced 434 2.8%
Unassessed 2,486 16.2%

All names

The status of the 20,687 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Brassicaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 4,045 19.6%
Synonym 13,566 65.6%
Unplaced 437 2.1%
Unassessed 2,639 12.8%

Of these names,

A further 4 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 15,389 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Brassicaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 3,379 8,435 0 0 11,814 76.8%
Low confidence 122 533 434 2,486 3,575 23.2%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
TICA 1 0 0 2 0 3 0.0%
Tropicos 1,070 3,353 0 166 0 4,589 29.8%
WCSP 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0%
WCSP (in review) 2,430 5,615 434 2,317 4 10,800 70.2%