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The genus Monechma is in the family Acanthaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Monechma

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Monechma ciliatum (Jacq.) Milne-Redh.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Monechma cleomoides (S.Moore) C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Monechma debile (Forssk.) Nees	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Monechma depauperatum (T.Anderson) C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Monechma desertorum C.B. Clarke	Accepted		TRO
Monechma distichotrichum P.G. Mey.	Accepted		TRO
Monechma divaricatum (Nees) C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Monechma glaucifolium S.Moore	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Monechma incanum C.B. Clarke	Accepted		TRO
Monechma leucoderme C.B. Clarke	Accepted		TRO
Monechma lolioides (S.Moore) C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Monechma marginatum (Lindau) C.B. Clarke	Accepted		TRO
Monechma mollissimum P.G. Mey.	Accepted		TRO
Monechma ndellense (Lindau) É. Miège & Heine	Accepted		TRO
Monechma rigidum S.Moore	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Monechma salsola (S.Moore) C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Monechma scabridum (S. Moore) C.B. Clarke	Accepted		TRO
Monechma spartioides C.B. Clarke	Accepted		TRO
Monechma spissum C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Monechma virgultorum S.Moore	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 69 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Monechma. Of these 20 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Monechma. 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 69 species names for the genus Monechma recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	29.0%
◕	Synonym	21	30.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	28	40.6%

All names

The status of the 71 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Monechma recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	28.2%
◕	Synonym	21	29.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	30	42.3%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 69 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Monechma, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	19	17	0	0	36	52.2%
	Low confidence	1	4	0	28	33	47.8%

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