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The genus Melica is in the family Poaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Melica

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Melica altissima L.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica amethystina Pourr.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica animarum Muj.-Sall. & M.Marchi	Accepted		WCSP
Melica argentata É.Desv.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica argyrea Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica aristata Thurb. ex Bol.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica arzivencoi Valls & Barcellos	Accepted		WCSP
Melica × aschersonii M.Schulze	Accepted		WCSP
Melica bocquetii Talavera	Accepted		WCSP
Melica bonariensis Parodi	Accepted		WCSP
Melica brasiliana Ard.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica brevicoronata Roseng.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica bulbosa Porter & J.M.Coult.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica californica Scribn.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica canariensis W.Hempel	Accepted		WCSP
Melica cepacea (Phil.) Scribn.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica × ceretana Sennen	Accepted		WCSP
Melica chilensis J.Presl	Accepted		WCSP
Melica ciliata L.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica commersonii Nees ex Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica cupanii Guss.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica decipiens Caro	Accepted		WCSP
Melica dendroides Lehm.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica eligulata Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica eremophila Torres	Accepted		WCSP
Melica frutescens Scribn.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica fugax Bol.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica geyeri Munro ex Bol.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica glabrescens (Torres) Torres	Accepted		WCSP
Melica grandiflora Koidz.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica harfordii Bol.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica hitchcockii B.Boivin	Accepted		WCSP
Melica hunzikeri Nicora	Accepted		WCSP
Melica hyalina Döll	Accepted		WCSP
Melica imperfecta Trin.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica kozlovii Tzvelev	Accepted		WCSP
Melica lilloi Bech.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica longiflora Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica longiligulata Z.L.Wu	Accepted		WCSP
Melica macra Nees	Accepted		WCSP
Melica minor Hack. ex Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica minuta L.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica mollis Phil.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica montezumae Piper	Accepted		WCSP
Melica mutica Walter	Accepted		WCSP
Melica nitens (Scribn.) Nutt. ex Piper	Accepted		WCSP
Melica nutans L.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica onoei Franch. & Sav.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica pappiana W.Hempel	Accepted		WCSP
Melica parodiana Torres	Accepted		WCSP
Melica patagonica Parodi	Accepted		WCSP
Melica paulsenii Phil.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica penicillaris Boiss. & Bal.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica persica Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Melica picta K.Koch	Accepted		WCSP
Melica poecilantha É.Desv.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica porteri Scribn.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica przewalskyi Roshev.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica racemosa Thunb.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica radula Franch.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica rectiflora Boiss. & Heldr.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica rigida Cav.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica riograndensis Longhi-Wagner & Valls	Accepted		WCSP
Melica sarmentosa Nees	Accepted		WCSP
Melica scaberrima (Steud.) Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica scabra Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Melica scabrosa Trin.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica schafkatii Bondarenko	Accepted		WCSP
Melica schuetzeana W.Hempel	Accepted		WCSP
Melica secunda Regel	Accepted		WCSP
Melica serrana Muj.-Sall. & M.Marchi	Accepted		WCSP
Melica smithii (Porter) Vasey	Accepted		WCSP
Melica spartinoides L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica stricta Bol.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica stuckertii Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica subflava Z.L.Wu	Accepted		WCSP
Melica subulata (Griseb.) Scribn.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica tangutorum Tzvelev	Accepted		WCSP
Melica taylorii W.Hempel	Accepted		WCSP
Melica teneriffae Hack. ex Christ	Accepted		WCSP
Melica tenuis Arechav.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica × thuringiaca Rauschert	Accepted		WCSP
Melica tibetica Roshev.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica torreyana Scribn.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica transsilvanica Schur	Accepted		WCSP
Melica turczaninowiana Ohwi	Accepted		WCSP
Melica uniflora Retz.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica violacea Cav.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica virgata Turcz. ex Trin.	Accepted		WCSP
Melica × weinii W.Hempel	Accepted		WCSP
Melica yajiangensis Z.L.Wu	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 315 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Melica. Of these 91 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 228 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Melica. 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 315 species names for the genus Melica recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	91	28.9%
◕	Synonym	205	65.1%
◕	Unplaced	11	3.5%
◕	Unassessed	8	2.5%

All names

The status of the 543 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Melica recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	93	17.1%
◕	Synonym	431	79.4%
◕	Unplaced	11	2.0%
◕	Unassessed	8	1.5%

Of these names,

• 31 are recorded as invalid
• 24 are recorded as illegitimate
• 3 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 315 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Melica, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	91	198	0	0	289	91.7%
	Medium confidence	0	7	0	0	7	2.2%
	Low confidence	0	0	11	8	19	6.0%

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