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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Melinis

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Melinis ambigua Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis amethystea (Franch.) Zizka	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis angolensis Rendle	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis ascendens Mez	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis biaristata (Rendle) Stapf & C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis drakensbergensis (C.E.Hubb. & Schweick.) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis effusa (Rendle) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis gossweileri C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis kallimorpha (Clayton) Zizka	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis longiseta (A.Rich.) Zizka	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis macrochaeta Stapf & C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis minutiflora P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis nerviglumis (Franch.) Zizka	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis repens (Willd.) Zizka	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis reynaudioides (C.E.Hubb.) Zizka	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis rupicola (Rendle) Zizka	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis scabrida (K.Schum.) Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis subglabra Mez	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis tanatricha (Rendle) Zizka	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis tenuissima Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis tomentosa Rendle	Accepted		WCSP
Melinis welwitschii Rendle	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 79 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Melinis. Of these 22 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 22 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Melinis. 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 79 species names for the genus Melinis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	22	27.8%
◕	Synonym	57	72.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 101 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Melinis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	27	26.7%
◕	Synonym	74	73.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 79 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Melinis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	22	56	0	0	78	98.7%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	1.3%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

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