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.

Ranunculaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Ranunculaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Ranunculaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 62 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 8,900 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Ranunculaceae. Of these 2,242 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 3,794 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Ranunculaceae. 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 8,900 species names for the family Ranunculaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 2,242 25.2%
◕ Synonym 3,221 36.2%
◕ Unplaced 290 3.3%
◕ Unassessed 3,147 35.4%

All names

The status of the 12,694 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Ranunculaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 2,720 21.4%
◕ Synonym 6,220 49.0%
◕ Unplaced 296 2.3%
◕ Unassessed 3,458 27.2%

Of these names,

A further 5 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 8,900 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Ranunculaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 2 0 0 2 0.0%
Medium confidence 2,188 2,986 0 0 5,174 58.1%
Low confidence 54 233 290 3,147 3,724 41.8%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 422 626 0 80 0 1,128 12.7%
WCSP 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.0%
WCSP (in review) 1,820 2,593 290 3,067 5 7,775 87.4%