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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Caryophyllaceae

Caryophyllaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

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A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Caryophyllaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Caryophyllaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 91 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 10,639 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Caryophyllaceae. Of these 2,456 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2,563 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Caryophyllaceae. 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 10,639 species names for the family Caryophyllaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,456	23.1%
◕	Synonym	3,928	36.9%
◕	Unplaced	8	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	4,247	39.9%

All names

The status of the 13,202 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Caryophyllaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,866	21.7%
◕	Synonym	5,990	45.4%
◕	Unplaced	8	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	4,338	32.9%

Of the species names,

62 are recorded as invalid
248 are recorded as illegitimate
7 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 8 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 10,639 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Caryophyllaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.0%
Medium confidence	2,363	3,512	0	0	5,875	55.2%
Low confidence	93	415	8	4,247	4,763	44.8%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Caryophyllaceae is as follows:

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
TICA	0	0	2	0	0	2	0.0%
Tropicos	628	793	1	102	0	1,524	14.3%
WCSP	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.0%
WCSP (in review)	1,828	3,134	5	4,145	8	9,112	85.6%