Database details
| Database qualifiers | |
|---|---|
| Coverage: |
Global |
| Completeness: | 99% |
| Checklist confidence: |
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| Full name: | World Checklist of Selected Plant Families |
|---|---|
| Short name: | WCSP |
| Version: | Oct 2011 |
| Release date: | 2011-10-11 |
| Authors/editors: | Govaerts R. (ed). For a full list of reviewers see: http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/compilersReviewers.do |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Plantae - Tracheophyta - Ginkgoopsida, Gnetopsida, Liliopsida - Acoraceae, Alismataceae, Alstroemeriaceae, Amaryllidaceae, Anarthriaceae, Aponogetonaceae, Araceae, Arecaceae, Asparagaceae, Asteliaceae, Blandfordiaceae, Boryaceae, Bromeliaceae, Burmanniaceae, Butomaceae, Campynemataceae, Cannaceae, Centrolepidaceae, Colchicaceae, Commelinaceae, Corsiaceae, Costaceae, Cyclanthaceae, Cymodoceaceae, Cyperaceae, Dasypogonaceae, Dioscoreaceae, Doryanthaceae, Ecdeiocoleaceae, Eriocaulaceae, Flagellariaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Heliconiaceae, Hydrocharitaceae, Hypoxidaceae, Iridaceae, Ixioliriaceae, Joinvilleaceae, Juncaginaceae, Lanariaceae, Liliaceae, Lowiaceae, Marantaceae, Mayacaceae, Melanthiaceae, Musaceae, Nartheciaceae, Orchidaceae, Pandanaceae, Petermanniaceae, Petrosaviaceae, Philesiaceae, Philydraceae, Poaceae, Pontederiaceae, Posidoniaceae, Rapateaceae, Restionaceae, Rhipogonaceae, Ruppiaceae, Scheuchzeriaceae, Smilacaceae, Stemonaceae, Strelitziaceae, Tecophilaeaceae, Thurniaceae, Tofieldiaceae, Triuridaceae, Typhaceae, Velloziaceae, Xanthorrhoeaceae, Xeronemataceae, Xyridaceae, Zingiberaceae, Zosteraceae Plantae - Tracheophyta - Magnoliopsida - Araliaceae, Betulaceae, Campanulaceae, Caryocaraceae, Centroplacaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Fagaceae, Garryaceae, Hydatellaceae, Magnoliaceae, Myrtaceae (except Eucalyptus), Nothofagaceae, Pandaceae, Phyllanthaceae, Picrodendraceae, Putranjivaceae, Rubiaceae, Sapotaceae, Ticodendraceae |
| English name of the group: | 99 families of seed plants |
| Number of species: | 106,715 |
| Number of infraspecific taxa: | 10,725 |
| Number of synonyms: | 235,848 |
| Number of common names: | 0 |
| Total number of names: | 353,288 |
| Abstract: | These global plant family checklists are facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Each family checklist aims to provide the correct scientific name and includes all known published and accepted species and infraspecific taxa with their synonyms. They include the global distribution both in a narrative form and as the Botanical country codes as defined by the Taxonomic Databases Working Group. Pertinent nomenclatural and other comments as well as life-forms are included. Poaceae data is derived from Grassbase - the online world grassflora, W.D. Clayton, K.T. Harman & H. Williamson (www.kew.org/data/grasses-db.html). |
| Organization: | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK |
| Website: |
http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do |