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The genus Melothria is in the family Cucurbitaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Melothria

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Melothria cucumis Vell.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melothria dulcis Wunderlin	Accepted		TRO
Melothria fimbristipula (Kotschy & Peyr.) Roberty	Accepted		TRO
Melothria longituba C. Jeffrey	Accepted		TRO
Melothria pendula L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melothria perpusilla (Blume) Cogn.	Accepted		TRO
Melothria pringlei (S. Watson) Mart. Crov.	Accepted		TRO
Melothria scabra Naudin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melothria schulziana M. Crovetto	Accepted		TRO
Melothria trilobata Cogn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melothria uliginosa Cogn.	Accepted		TRO
Melothria warmingii Cogn.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 166 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Melothria. Of these 12 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 12 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Melothria. 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 166 species names for the genus Melothria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	12	7.2%
◕	Synonym	71	42.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	83	50.0%

All names

The status of the 178 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Melothria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	13	7.3%
◕	Synonym	82	46.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	83	46.6%

The confidence with which the status of the 166 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Melothria, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	11	62	0	0	73	44.0%
	Low confidence	1	9	0	83	93	56.0%

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