Database details : World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
| Database qualifiers | |
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| Coverage: |
Global |
| Completeness: | 99% |
| Checklist confidence: |
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| Full name: | World Checklist of Selected Plant Families UPDATED! |
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| Short name: | WCSP |
| Version: | Sep 2014 |
| Release date: | 2014-09-05 |
| 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 Plantae - Tracheophyta - Liliopsida - Acorales - Acoraceae Alismatales - Alismataceae, Aponogetonaceae, Araceae, Butomaceae, Cymodoceaceae, Hydrocharitaceae, Juncaginaceae, Posidoniaceae, Potamogetonaceae, Ruppiaceae, Scheuchzeriaceae, Tofieldiaceae, Zosteraceae Arecales - Arecaceae, Dasypogonaceae Asparagales - Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae, Asteliaceae, Blandfordiaceae, Boryaceae, Doryanthaceae, Hypoxidaceae, Iridaceae, Ixioliriaceae, Lanariaceae, Orchidaceae, Tecophilaeaceae, Xanthorrhoeaceae, Xeronemataceae Commelinales - Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, Pontederiaceae Dioscoreales - Burmanniaceae, Dioscoreaceae, Nartheciaceae Liliales - Alstroemeriaceae, Campynemataceae, Colchicaceae, Corsiaceae, Liliaceae, Melanthiaceae, Petermanniaceae, Philesiaceae, Ripogonaceae, Smilacaceae Pandanales - Cyclanthaceae, Pandanaceae, Stemonaceae, Triuridaceae, Velloziaceae Petrosaviales - Petrosaviaceae Poales - Anarthriaceae, Bromeliaceae, Centrolepidaceae, Cyperaceae, Ecdeiocoleaceae, Eriocaulaceae, Flagellariaceae, Joinvilleaceae, Mayacaceae, Poaceae, Rapateaceae, Restionaceae, Thurniaceae, Typhaceae, Xyridaceae Zingiberales - Cannaceae, Costaceae, Heliconiaceae, Lowiaceae, Marantaceae, Musaceae, Strelitziaceae, Zingiberaceae Plantae - Tracheophyta - Magnoliopsida - Apiales - Araliaceae Aquifoliales - Cardiopteridaceae Asterales - Campanulaceae Caryophyllales - Cornaceae Cucurbitales - Begoniaceae Dioscoreales - Taccaceae Ericales - Clethraceae, Ebenaceae, Sapotaceae Fagales - Betulaceae, Fagaceae, Nothofagaceae, Ticodendraceae Garryales - Garryaceae Gentianales - Rubiaceae Huerteales - Sarcolaenaceae Lamiales - Lamiaceae, Oleaceae, Schlegeliaceae, Verbenaceae Magnoliales - Magnoliaceae Malpighiales - Caryocaraceae, Centroplacaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Pandaceae, Peraceae, Phyllanthaceae, Picrodendraceae, Putranjivaceae Malvales - Sphaerosepalaceae Paracryphiales - Paracryphiaceae Santalales - Opiliaceae |
| English name of the group: | 113 families of seed plants |
| Number of living species | 120,279 |
| Number of living infraspecific taxa | 13,213 |
| Number of extinct species: | 0 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: | 0 |
| Number of synonyms: | 276,650 |
| Number of common names: | 0 |
| Total number of names: | 410,142 |
| 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. All data have been peer reviewed by nomenclatural, taxonomic and regional experts from accross the world. 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/ |
| Bibliographic citation: | Govaerts R. (ed). For a full list of reviewers see: http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/compilersReviewers.do (2025). WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (version Sep 2014). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2016 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2016. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |