Melastomataceae

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

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Genera in Melastomataceae

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

Statistics

Species of Melastomataceae contained within The Plant List belong to 153 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 8,009 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Melastomataceae. Of these 2,947 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 380 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Melastomataceae. 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 8,009 species names for the family Melastomataceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,947	36.8%
◕	Synonym	2,662	33.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2,400	30.0%

All names

The status of the 8,389 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Melastomataceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3,019	36.0%
◕	Synonym	2,935	35.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2,435	29.0%

The confidence with which the status of the 8,009 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Melastomataceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	0	0	0	0%
Medium confidence	2,938	2,639	0	5,577	69.6%
Low confidence	9	23	2,400	2,432	30.4%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	2,947	2,662	0	2,399	0	8,008	100.0%
WCSP	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.0%