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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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

Rubiaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Rubiaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Rubiaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 617 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 31,167 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Rubiaceae. Of these 13,548 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 5,170 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Rubiaceae. 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 31,167 species names for the family Rubiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 13,548 43.5%
Synonym 16,302 52.3%
Unplaced 682 2.2%
Unassessed 635 2.0%

All names

The status of the 36,337 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Rubiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 14,506 39.9%
Synonym 20,500 56.4%
Unplaced 683 1.9%
Unassessed 648 1.8%

Of these names,

A further 13 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 31,167 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Rubiaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 13,464 15,614 0 0 29,078 93.3%
Medium confidence 62 487 0 0 549 1.8%
Low confidence 22 201 682 635 1,540 4.9%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
iPlants 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.0%
TICA 2 1 0 17 0 20 0.1%
Tropicos 62 491 0 567 0 1,120 3.6%
WCSP 13,484 15,795 681 48 13 30,021 96.3%
WCSP (in review) 0 13 1 3 0 17 0.1%