World Checklist of Selected Plant Families.

By Wcsp. 2016

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A tale of worldwide success: Behind the scenes of Carex (Cyperaceae) biogeography and diversification (2019, background): “The sedge genus Carex L. (Cyperaceae), with nearly 2000 species, is among the three largest angiosperm genera in the world (POWO, 2019; WCSP, 2019).”
The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase (2016, methodology): “Species numbers for families that have been treated in the Kew Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP 2016) are generally followed here and adapted where new evidence has emerged but was not yet absorbed into this checklist or proven contradictory by the taxonomic community.”
Multidimensional biases, gaps and uncertainties in global plant occurrence information. (2016, methodology): “A more robust measure of taxonomic coverage could be attained for ‘botanical countries’ and 105,031 species of native seed plants (spermatophytes), based on records that were geographically validated against botanical-country checklists (WCSP (2013); Fig.”