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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	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Melica altissima L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica amethystina Pourr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica animarum Muj.-Sall. & M.Marchi	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica argentata É.Desv.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica argyrea Hack.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica aristata Thurb. ex Bol.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica arzivencoi Valls & Barcellos	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica × aschersonii M.Schulze	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica benedictoi Pau ex Zapater	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica bocquetii Talavera	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica bonariensis Parodi	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica brasiliana Ard.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica brevicoronata Roseng.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica bulbosa Porter & J.M.Coult.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica caerulea Lam.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica californica Scribn.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica canariensis W.Hempel	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica capillaris Sol.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica caricina d'Urv.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica cepacea (Phil.) Scribn.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica × ceretana Sennen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica chilensis J.Presl	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica ciliata L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica commersonii Nees ex Steud.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica cupanii Guss.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica × curtisetosa (Scribn.) R.W.Pohl	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica debilis Bergeret	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica decipiens Caro	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica dendroides Lehm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica duthieana Hack. ex Papp	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Melica eligulata Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica eremophila Torres	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica exasperata Roem. & Schult.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica festucoides Willd. ex Steud.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica frutescens Scribn.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica fugax Bol.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica geyeri Munro ex Bol.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica glabrescens (Torres) Torres	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica grandiflora Koidz.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica harfordii Bol.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica hitchcockii B.Boivin	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica hunzikeri Nicora	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica hyalina Döll	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica imperfecta Trin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica kozlovii Tzvelev	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica lanuginosa Desf.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica lilloi Bech.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica longiflora Steud.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica longiligulata Z.L.Wu	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica macra Nees	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica minor Hack. ex Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica minuta L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica mollis Phil.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica montana Lam.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica montezumae Piper	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica mutica Walter	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica nitens (Scribn.) Nutt. ex Piper	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica nutans L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica onoei Franch. & Sav.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica pappiana W.Hempel	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica parodiana Torres	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica patagonica Parodi	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica paulsenii Phil.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica penicillaris Boiss. & Bal.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica persica Kunth	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica philippinensis Llanos	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Melica picta K.Koch	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica planifolia Papp	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Melica poecilantha É.Desv.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica porteri Scribn.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica przewalskyi Roshev.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica racemosa Thunb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica radula Franch.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica rectiflora Boiss. & Heldr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica rigida Cav.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica riograndensis Longhi-Wagner & Valls	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica sarmentosa Nees	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica scaberrima (Steud.) Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica scabra Kunth	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica scabrosa Trin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica scandens Larrañaga	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica schafkatii Bondarenko	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica schuetzeana W.Hempel	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica secunda Regel	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica serrana Muj.-Sall. & M.Marchi	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica smithii (Porter) Vasey	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica spartinoides L.B.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica spectabilis Scribn.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica stricta Bol.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica stuckertii Hack.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica subflava Z.L.Wu	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica subulata (Griseb.) Scribn.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica tangutorum Tzvelev	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica taylorii W.Hempel	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica teneriffae Hack. ex Christ	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica tenuis Arechav.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica × thuringiaca Rauschert	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica tibetica Roshev.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica torreyana Scribn.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica transsilvanica Schur	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica turczaninowiana Ohwi	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica uniflora Retz.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica violacea Cav.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica virgata Turcz. ex Trin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica × weinii W.Hempel	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Melica yajiangensis Z.L.Wu	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 289 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Melica. Of these 92 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 229 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 289 species names for the genus Melica recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	92	31.8%
◕	Synonym	182	63.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	15	5.2%

All names

The status of the 518 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Melica recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	92	17.8%
◕	Synonym	411	79.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	15	2.9%

Of the species names,

• 27 are recorded as invalid
• 19 are recorded as illegitimate
• 3 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 289 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Melica, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	92	181	0	0	273	94.5%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.3%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	15	15	5.2%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Melica is as follows: