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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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

Malvaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Malvaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Malvaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 236 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 14,258 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Malvaceae. Of these 3,704 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,685 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Malvaceae. 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 14,258 species names for the family Malvaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 3,704 26.0%
Synonym 5,370 37.7%
Unplaced 132 0.9%
Unassessed 5,052 35.4%

All names

The status of the 15,943 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Malvaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 3,938 24.7%
Synonym 6,757 42.4%
Unplaced 132 0.8%
Unassessed 5,116 32.1%

Of these names,

A further 3 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 14,258 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Malvaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 6 0 0 6 0.0%
Medium confidence 3,606 4,931 0 0 8,537 59.9%
Low confidence 98 433 132 5,052 5,715 40.1%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 1,048 2,344 0 245 0 3,637 25.5%
WCSP 0 6 0 0 0 6 0.0%
WCSP (in review) 2,656 3,020 132 4,807 3 10,618 74.5%