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The genus Melinis is in the family Poaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Melinis

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Melinis ambigua Hack.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Melinis amethystea (Franch.) Zizka	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis angolensis Rendle	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis ascendens Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis biaristata (Rendle) Stapf & C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis drakensbergensis (C.E.Hubb. & Schweick.) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis effusa (Rendle) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis gossweileri C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis kallimorpha (Clayton) Zizka	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis longiseta (A.Rich.) Zizka	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Melinis macrochaeta Stapf & C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis minutiflora P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis nerviglumis (Franch.) Zizka	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis repens (Willd.) Zizka	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	3
Melinis reynaudioides (C.E.Hubb.) Zizka	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis rupicola (Rendle) Zizka	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis scabrida (K.Schum.) Hack.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis subglabra Mez	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis tanatricha (Rendle) Zizka	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis tenuissima Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis tomentosa Rendle	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melinis welwitschii Rendle	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 178 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Melinis. Of these 22 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 41 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Melinis. 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 178 species names for the genus Melinis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	22	12.4%
◕	Synonym	156	87.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 219 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Melinis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	27	12.3%
◕	Synonym	192	87.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of the species names,

• 8 are recorded as invalid
• 9 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 178 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Melinis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	22	153	0	0	175	98.3%
	Medium confidence	0	3	0	0	3	1.7%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

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