The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Portulacaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Portulacaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Portulacaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 16 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 1,014 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Portulacaceae. Of these 278 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 161 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Portulacaceae. 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 1,014 species names for the family Portulacaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 278 27.4%
Synonym 446 44.0%
Unplaced 4 0.4%
Unassessed 286 28.2%

All names

The status of the 1,175 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Portulacaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 294 25.0%
Synonym 581 49.4%
Unplaced 4 0.3%
Unassessed 296 25.2%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 1,014 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Portulacaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 10 5 0 0 15 1.5%
Medium confidence 261 393 0 0 654 64.5%
Low confidence 7 48 4 286 345 34.0%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 41 155 0 11 0 207 20.4%
WCSP 11 6 0 0 0 17 1.7%
WCSP (in review) 226 285 4 275 0 790 77.9%