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The genus Myrica is in the family Myricaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Myrica

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Myrica adenophora Hance	Accepted		TRO
Myrica californica Cham. & Schltdl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Myrica caroliniensis Mill.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Myrica cerifera L.	Accepted		TRO
Myrica cordifolia L.	Accepted		TRO
Myrica dentulata Baill.	Accepted		TRO
Myrica esculenta Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don	Accepted		TRO
Myrica faya Dryand.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Myrica gale L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Myrica hartwegii S. Watson	Accepted		TRO
Myrica heterophylla Raf.	Accepted		TRO
Myrica inodora W. Bartram	Accepted		TRO
Myrica integra (A. Chev.) Killick	Accepted		TRO
Myrica kraussiana Buchinger ex Meisn.	Accepted		TRO
Myrica nana A. Chev.	Accepted		TRO
Myrica pensylvanica Mirb.	Accepted		TRO
Myrica quercifolia L.	Accepted		TRO
Myrica rubra (Lour.) Siebold & Zucc.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 121 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Myrica. Of these 18 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 34 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Myrica. 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 121 species names for the genus Myrica recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	18	14.9%
◕	Synonym	59	48.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	44	36.4%

All names

The status of the 155 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Myrica recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	12.9%
◕	Synonym	91	58.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	44	28.4%

The confidence with which the status of the 121 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Myrica, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	17	59	0	0	76	62.8%
	Low confidence	1	0	0	44	45	37.2%

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