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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Brassicaceae

Brassicaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Brassicaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 372 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 15,710 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Brassicaceae. Of these 4,060 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 5,555 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Brassicaceae. 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 15,710 species names for the family Brassicaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	4,060	25.8%
◕	Synonym	8,948	57.0%
◕	Unplaced	9	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	2,693	17.1%

All names

The status of the 21,265 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Brassicaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	4,507	21.2%
◕	Synonym	13,988	65.8%
◕	Unplaced	9	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	2,761	13.0%

Of the species names,

109 are recorded as invalid
356 are recorded as illegitimate
13 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 7 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 15,710 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Brassicaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
Medium confidence	3,936	8,423	0	0	12,359	78.7%
Low confidence	124	525	9	2,693	3,351	21.3%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
IPNI	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.0%
TICA	1	0	0	0	0	1	0.0%
RJP	0	0	2	0	0	2	0.0%
Tropicos	1,443	2,951	5	168	0	4,567	29.1%
WCSP	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.0%
WCSP (in review)	2,616	5,997	2	2,523	7	11,138	70.9%