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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Melocanna

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Melocanna arundina C.E.Parkinson	Accepted		WCSP
Melocanna baccifera (Roxb.) Kurz	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 20 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Melocanna. Of these 2 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Melocanna. 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 20 species names for the genus Melocanna recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	10.0%
◕	Synonym	17	85.0%
◕	Unplaced	1	5.0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 22 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Melocanna recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	9.1%
◕	Synonym	19	86.4%
◕	Unplaced	1	4.5%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 8 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 20 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Melocanna, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	2	16	0	0	18	90.0%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	1	1	0	2	10.0%

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