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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Rubiaceae

Rubiaceae

The family Rubiaceae 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 Rubiaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Rubiaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 609 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 31,357 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Rubiaceae. Of these 13,673 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 5,682 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 31,357 species names for the family Rubiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	13,673	43.6%
◕	Synonym	16,393	52.3%
◕	Unplaced	3	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	1,288	4.1%

All names

The status of the 37,039 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Rubiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	14,269	38.5%
◕	Synonym	21,455	57.9%
◕	Unplaced	3	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	1,312	3.5%

Of the species names,

509 are recorded as invalid
1,074 are recorded as illegitimate
32 are recorded as a spelling variant

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

The confidence with which the status of the 31,357 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Rubiaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	13,574	15,879	0	0	29,453	93.9%
Medium confidence	93	408	0	0	501	1.6%
Low confidence	6	106	3	1,288	1,403	4.5%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
iPlants	0	2	0	0	0	2	0.0%
IPNI	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.0%
TICA	1	0	0	7	0	8	0.0%
Tropicos	97	397	0	466	0	960	3.1%
WCSP	13,575	15,979	0	774	13	30,328	96.7%
WCSP (in review)	0	15	3	40	0	58	0.2%