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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Memecylon

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Memecylon afzelii G. Don	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon amaniense (Gilg) A. Fern. & R. Fern.	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon amoenum Jacq.-Fél.	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon bakerianum Cogn.	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon buxifolium Blume	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon caeruleum Jack	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon celastrinum Kurz	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon cogniauxii Gilg	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon cotinifolioides (H. Perrier) Jacq.-Fél.	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon crassinerve Blume	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon eduliforme Aug. DC.	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon gabonense (Peirre ex A. Chev.) Gilg ex Engl.	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon hainanense Merr. & Chun	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon lanceolatum Blanco	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon lateriflorum (G. Don) Bremek.	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon laurentii De Wild.	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon ligustrifolium Champ. ex Benth.	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon luchuenense C. Chen	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon myrianthum Gilg	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon myricoides Naudin	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon nigrescens Hook. & Arn.	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon octocostatum Merr. & Chun	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon ovatifolium (Poir.) Wickens	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon pauciflorum Blume	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon polyanthum H.L. Li	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon scutellatum (Lour.) Hook. & Arn.	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon sphaerocarpum DC.	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon tsaratananense (H. Perrier) Jacq.-Fél.	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon ulopterum DC.	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon virescens Hook. f.	Accepted		TRO
Memecylon zenkeri Gilg	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 289 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Memecylon. Of these 31 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 6 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Memecylon. 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 289 species names for the genus Memecylon recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	31	10.7%
◕	Synonym	95	32.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	163	56.4%

All names

The status of the 295 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Memecylon recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	31	10.5%
◕	Synonym	101	34.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	163	55.3%

The confidence with which the status of the 289 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Memecylon, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	28	92	0	0	120	41.5%
	Low confidence	3	3	0	163	169	58.5%

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