An up-to-date checklist of the vascular plants of Macaronesia (the Azores, the Madeira archipelago, the Salvage Islands, the Canary Island, and the Cape Verde Islands) is given. 3,106 species belonging to 1,062 genera are listed, as are also a number of intraspecific taxa down to variety level. 20 new nomenclatural combinations are made within the genera