The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Melothria

The genus Melothria is in the family Cucurbitaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Melothria

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Melothria cucumis Vell. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Melothria dulcis Wunderlin Accepted M TRO
Melothria fimbristipula (Kotschy & Peyr.) Roberty Accepted M TRO
Melothria longituba C. Jeffrey Accepted M TRO
Melothria pendula L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Melothria perpusilla (Blume) Cogn. Accepted M TRO
Melothria pringlei (S. Watson) Mart. Crov. Accepted L TRO
Melothria scabra Naudin Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Melothria schulziana M. Crovetto Accepted M TRO
Melothria trilobata Cogn. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Melothria uliginosa Cogn. Accepted M TRO
Melothria warmingii Cogn. Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 166 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Melothria. Of these 12 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 12 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Melothria. 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 166 species names for the genus Melothria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 12 7.2%
Synonym 71 42.8%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 83 50.0%

All names

The status of the 178 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Melothria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 13 7.3%
Synonym 82 46.1%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 83 46.6%

The confidence with which the status of the 166 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Melothria, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 11 62 0 0 73 44.0%
Low confidence 1 9 0 83 93 56.0%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 8 57 0 1 0 66 39.8%
WCSP (in review) 4 14 0 82 0 100 60.2%