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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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

Solanaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Solanaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Solanaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 105 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 8,216 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Solanaceae. Of these 2,030 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,047 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Solanaceae. 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 8,216 species names for the family Solanaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2,030 24.7%
Synonym 2,873 35.0%
Unplaced 120 1.5%
Unassessed 3,193 38.9%

All names

The status of the 9,263 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Solanaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2,145 23.2%
Synonym 3,749 40.5%
Unplaced 120 1.3%
Unassessed 3,249 35.1%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 8,216 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Solanaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 4 0 0 4 0.0%
Medium confidence 1,942 2,612 0 0 4,554 55.4%
Low confidence 88 257 120 3,193 3,658 44.5%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
iPlants 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0%
Tropicos 1,452 2,146 0 1,721 0 5,319 64.7%
WCSP 0 3 0 0 0 3 0.0%
WCSP (in review) 578 723 120 1,472 0 2,893 35.2%