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Melandrium

The genus Melandrium is in the family Caryophyllaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Melandrium

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Melandrium divaricatum Fenzl Accepted M TRO
Melandrium fimbriatum (Nutt.) Rohrb. Accepted M TRO
Melandrium keiskei (Miq.) Ohwi Accepted M TRO
Melandrium lapponicum Kuzen. Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 220 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Melandrium. Of these 4 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 34 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Melandrium. 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 220 species names for the genus Melandrium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 4 1.8%
Synonym 150 68.2%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 66 30.0%

All names

The status of the 254 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Melandrium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 4 1.6%
Synonym 183 72.0%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 67 26.4%

The confidence with which the status of the 220 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Melandrium, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 4 145 0 0 149 67.7%
Low confidence 0 5 0 66 71 32.3%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 4 124 0 0 0 128 58.2%
WCSP (in review) 0 26 0 66 0 92 41.8%