The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Melanthiaceae

The family Melanthiaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Melanthiaceae

A list of all accepted names in Melanthiaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Melanthiaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 17 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 662 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Melanthiaceae. Of these 186 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 354 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Melanthiaceae. 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 662 species names for the family Melanthiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 186 28.1%
Synonym 457 69.0%
Unplaced 9 1.4%
Unassessed 10 1.5%

All names

The status of the 1,016 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Melanthiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 222 21.9%
Synonym 775 76.3%
Unplaced 9 0.9%
Unassessed 10 1.0%

Of these names,

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 662 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Melanthiaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 184 429 0 0 613 92.6%
Medium confidence 1 10 0 0 11 1.7%
Low confidence 1 18 9 10 38 5.7%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the family Melanthiaceae, are as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 1 10 0 10 0 21 3.2%
WCSP 185 447 9 0 1 642 97.0%