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The genus Melastoma is in the family Melastomataceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Melastoma

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Melastoma dodecandrum Lour.	Accepted		TRO
Melastoma imbricatum Wall. ex Triana	Accepted		TRO
Melastoma intermedium Dunn	Accepted		TRO
Melastoma malabathricum L.	Accepted		TRO
Melastoma penicillatum Naudin	Accepted		TRO
Melastoma saigonense (Kuntze) Merr.	Accepted		TRO
Melastoma sanguineum Sims	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 305 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Melastoma. Of these 7 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 4 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Melastoma. 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 305 species names for the genus Melastoma recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	7	2.3%
◕	Synonym	234	76.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	64	21.0%

All names

The status of the 309 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Melastoma recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	8	2.6%
◕	Synonym	237	76.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	64	20.7%

The confidence with which the status of the 305 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Melastoma, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	7	232	0	0	239	78.4%
	Low confidence	0	2	0	64	66	21.6%

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