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- The Plant List
- Angiosperms
- Nyctaginaceae
- Angiosperms
Nyctaginaceae
The family Nyctaginaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).
Statistics are at the bottom of the page.
Genera in Nyctaginaceae
- Abronia
- Acleisanthes
- Allionia
- Andradea
- Anulocaulis
- Belemia
- Boerhaavia
- Boerhavia
- Boldoa
- Bougainvillea
- Calpidia
- Calymenia
- Calyxhymenia
- Caribea
- Ceodes
- Cephalotomandra
- Colignonia
- Commicarpus
- Cryptocarpus
- Cuscatlania
- Cyphomeris
- Eggersia
- Grajalesia
- Guapira
- Heimerlia
- Heimerliodendron
- Hesperonia
- Leucaster
- Mirabilis
- Nachtigalia
- Neea
- Neeopsis
- Nyctaginia
- Nyctago
- Okenia
- Oxybaphus
- Phaeoptilum
- Pisonia
- Pisoniella
- Quamoclidion
- Ramisia
- Reichenbachia
- Rockia
- Salpianthus
- Senkenbergia
- Timeroyea
- Torrubia
- Tricycla
- Trimista
- Tripterocalyx
- Wedelia
A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Nyctaginaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .
Statistics
Species of Nyctaginaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 34 plant genera.
The Plant List includes 1,420 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Nyctaginaceae. Of these 450 are accepted species names.
The Plant List includes a further 279 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Nyctaginaceae. 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 1,420 species names for the family Nyctaginaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 450 | 31.7% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 540 | 38.0% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 430 | 30.3% |
All names
The status of the 1,699 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Nyctaginaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 482 | 28.4% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 766 | 45.1% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 451 | 26.5% |
Of the species names,
- 7 are recorded as invalid
- 14 are recorded as illegitimate
A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.
The confidence with which the status of the 1,420 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Nyctaginaceae, are assigned as follows:
| Confidence level | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
High confidence | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.1% |
 |
Medium confidence | 426 | 463 | 0 | 0 | 889 | 62.6% |
 |
Low confidence | 24 | 76 | 0 | 430 | 530 | 37.3% |
The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Nyctaginaceae is as follows:
| Source of record | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Misapplied | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TICA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.1% |
| Tropicos | 145 | 224 | 0 | 70 | 0 | 439 | 30.9% |
| WCSP | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.1% |
| WCSP (in review) | 305 | 315 | 0 | 359 | 1 | 979 | 68.9% |