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The genus Malus is in the family Rosaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Malus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Malus asiatica Nakai	Accepted		TRO
Malus baccata (L.) Borkh.	Accepted		TRO
Malus bhutanica (W.W. Sm.) J.B. Phipps	Accepted		TRO
Malus daochengensis C.L. Li	Accepted		TRO
Malus domestica Borkh.	Accepted		TRO
Malus doumeri (Bois) A. Chev.	Accepted		TRO
Malus fusca (Raf.) C.K. Schneid.	Accepted		TRO
Malus halliana Koehne	Accepted		TRO
Malus honanensis Rehder	Accepted		TRO
Malus hupehensis (Pamp.) Rehder	Accepted		TRO
Malus jinxianensis J.Q. Deng & J.Y. Hong	Accepted		TRO
Malus kansuensis (Batalin) C.K. Schneid.	Accepted		TRO
Malus komarovii (Sarg.) Rehder	Accepted		TRO
Malus leiocalyca S.Z. Huang	Accepted		TRO
Malus malus (L.) Britton	Accepted		TRO
Malus mandshurica (Maxim.) Kom. ex Juz.	Accepted		TRO
Malus × micromalus Makino	Accepted		TRO
Malus muliensis T.C. Ku	Accepted		TRO
Malus ombrophila Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		TRO
Malus orientalis Uglitzk.	Accepted		TRO
Malus prattii (Hemsl.) C.K. Schneid.	Accepted		TRO
Malus prunifolia (Willd.) Borkh.	Accepted		TRO
Malus pumila Mill.	Accepted		TRO
Malus rivularis (Douglas) M. Roem.	Accepted		TRO
Malus rockii Rehder	Accepted		TRO
Malus sieboldii (Regel) Rehder	Accepted		TRO
Malus sieversii (Ledeb.) M. Roem.	Accepted		TRO
Malus sikkimensis (Wenz.) Koehne	Accepted		TRO
Malus × soulardii (L.H. Bailey) 43+in+43+&+661+(pro sp.)+	Accepted		TRO
Malus spectabilis (Aiton) Borkh.	Accepted		TRO
Malus sylvestris Mill.	Accepted		TRO
Malus toringoides (Rehder) Hughes	Accepted		TRO
Malus transitoria (Batalin) C.K. Schneid.	Accepted		TRO
Malus yunnanensis (Franch.) C.K. Schneid.	Accepted		TRO
Malus zumi (Matsum.) Rehder	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 91 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Malus. Of these 35 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 86 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Malus. 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 91 species names for the genus Malus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	35	38.5%
◕	Synonym	42	46.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	14	15.4%

All names

The status of the 177 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Malus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	48	27.1%
◕	Synonym	107	60.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	22	12.4%

The confidence with which the status of the 91 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Malus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	34	42	0	0	76	83.5%
	Low confidence	1	0	0	14	15	16.5%

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