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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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.

Capparaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Capparaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Capparaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 29 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 1,445 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Capparaceae. Of these 381 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 206 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 1,445 species names for the family Capparaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 381 26.4%
Synonym 712 49.3%
Unplaced 33 2.3%
Unassessed 319 22.1%

All names

The status of the 1,651 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Capparaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 421 25.5%
Synonym 874 52.9%
Unplaced 33 2.0%
Unassessed 323 19.6%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 1,445 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 368 667 0 0 1,035 71.6%
Low confidence 13 44 33 319 409 28.3%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
TICA 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.1%
Tropicos 34 162 0 27 0 223 15.4%
WCSP 0 3 0 0 0 3 0.2%
WCSP (in review) 346 546 33 292 0 1,217 84.2%