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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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

Cucurbitaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Cucurbitaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Cucurbitaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 126 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 3,801 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Cucurbitaceae. Of these 989 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 631 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Cucurbitaceae. 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 3,801 species names for the family Cucurbitaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 989 26.0%
Synonym 1,631 42.9%
Unplaced 78 2.1%
Unassessed 1,103 29.0%

All names

The status of the 4,432 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Cucurbitaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 1,049 23.7%
Synonym 2,185 49.3%
Unplaced 78 1.8%
Unassessed 1,120 25.3%

Of these names,

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 3,801 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Cucurbitaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 937 1,440 0 0 2,377 62.5%
Low confidence 52 191 78 1,103 1,424 37.5%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 422 590 0 99 0 1,111 29.2%
WCSP (in review) 567 1,041 78 1,004 1 2,691 70.8%