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The genus Melilotus is in the family Leguminosae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Melilotus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Melilotus albus Medik.	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus altissimus Thuill.	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus dentatus (Waldst. & Kit.) Pers.	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus elegans Ser.	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus hirsutus Lipsky	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus indicus (L.) All.	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus infestus Guss.	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus italicus (L.) Lam.	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus macrocarpus Coss. & Durieu	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus melilotus-officinalis (L.) Farw.	Accepted		TRO
Melilotus messanensis (L.) All.	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus neapolitanus Ten.	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus officinalis (L.) Pall.	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus polonicus (L.) Pall.	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus segetalis (Brot.) Ser.	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus serratifolius Tackh. & Boulos	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus speciosus Durieu	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus suaveolens Ledeb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus sulcatus Desf.	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus tauricus (M.Bieb.) Ser.	Accepted		ILDIS
Melilotus wolgicus Poir.	Accepted		ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 183 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Melilotus. Of these 21 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 9 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Melilotus. 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 183 species names for the genus Melilotus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	21	11.5%
◕	Synonym	76	41.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	86	47.0%

All names

The status of the 192 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Melilotus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	22	11.5%
◕	Synonym	84	43.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	86	44.8%

Of these names,

• 23 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 4 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 183 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Melilotus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	20	67	0	0	87	47.5%
	Medium confidence	1	7	0	0	8	4.4%
	Low confidence	0	2	0	86	88	48.1%

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