Euphorbiaceae

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

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Genera in Euphorbiaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Euphorbiaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 229 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 16,849 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Euphorbiaceae. Of these 6,511 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 4,394 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Euphorbiaceae. 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 16,849 species names for the family Euphorbiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6,511	38.6%
◕	Synonym	9,879	58.6%
◕	Unplaced	211	1.3%
◕	Unassessed	248	1.5%

All names

The status of the 21,243 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Euphorbiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6,974	32.8%
◕	Synonym	13,797	64.9%
◕	Unplaced	214	1.0%
◕	Unassessed	258	1.2%

Of these names,

278 are recorded as invalid
806 are recorded as illegitimate
8 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 4 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 16,849 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Euphorbiaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	6,465	9,470	0	0	15,935	94.6%
Medium confidence	22	254	0	0	276	1.6%
Low confidence	24	155	211	248	638	3.8%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	22	253	0	192	0	467	2.8%
WCSP	6,489	9,616	211	45	4	16,365	97.1%
WCSP (in review)	0	10	0	11	0	21	0.1%