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The genus Melissa is in the family Lamiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Melissa

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Melissa axillaris (Benth.) Bakh.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Melissa flava Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Melissa officinalis L.	Accepted		WCSP
Melissa yunnanensis C.Y.Wu & Y.C.Huang	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 87 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Melissa. Of these 4 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 8 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Melissa. 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 87 species names for the genus Melissa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	4	4.6%
◕	Synonym	77	88.5%
◕	Unplaced	5	5.7%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.1%

All names

The status of the 95 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Melissa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	7	7.4%
◕	Synonym	82	86.3%
◕	Unplaced	5	5.3%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.1%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as invalid
• 7 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 87 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Melissa, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	4	74	0	0	78	89.7%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	1.1%
	Low confidence	0	2	5	1	8	9.2%

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