The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Malus

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

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

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 35 42 0 14 0 91 100%