The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Melilotus

The genus Melilotus is in the family Leguminosae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Melilotus

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Melilotus albus Medik. Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus altissimus Thuill. Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus dentatus (Waldst. & Kit.) Pers. Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus elegans Ser. Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus hirsutus Lipsky Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus indicus (L.) All. Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus infestus Guss. Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus italicus (L.) Lam. Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus macrocarpus Coss. & Durieu Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus melilotus-officinalis (L.) Farw. Accepted M TRO
Melilotus messanensis (L.) All. Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus neapolitanus Ten. Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus officinalis (L.) Pall. Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus polonicus (L.) Pall. Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus segetalis (Brot.) Ser. Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus serratifolius Tackh. & Boulos Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus speciosus Durieu Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus suaveolens Ledeb. Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus sulcatus Desf. Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus tauricus (M.Bieb.) Ser. Accepted H ILDIS
Melilotus wolgicus Poir. Accepted H ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 183 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Melilotus. Of these 21 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 9 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Melilotus. 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 183 species names for the genus Melilotus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 21 11.5%
Synonym 76 41.5%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 86 47.0%

All names

The status of the 192 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Melilotus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 22 11.5%
Synonym 84 43.8%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 86 44.8%

Of these names,

A further 4 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 183 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Melilotus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 20 67 0 0 87 47.5%
Medium confidence 1 7 0 0 8 4.4%
Low confidence 0 2 0 86 88 48.1%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
ILDIS 20 68 0 0 4 92 50.3%
Tropicos 1 8 0 7 0 16 8.7%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 79 0 79 43.2%