Meliaceae

The family Meliaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

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Genera in Meliaceae

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A list of all accepted names in Meliaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Meliaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 46 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 3,155 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Meliaceae. Of these 559 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 295 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Meliaceae. 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 3,155 species names for the family Meliaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	559	17.7%
◕	Synonym	1,808	57.3%
◕	Unplaced	72	2.3%
◕	Unassessed	716	22.7%

All names

The status of the 3,450 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Meliaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	595	17.2%
◕	Synonym	2,045	59.3%
◕	Unplaced	72	2.1%
◕	Unassessed	738	21.4%

Of these names,

70 are recorded as invalid
39 are recorded as illegitimate
5 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 3,155 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Meliaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	3	0	0	3	0.1%
Medium confidence	521	1,529	0	0	2,050	65.0%
Low confidence	38	276	72	716	1,102	34.9%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	102	395	0	47	0	544	17.2%
WCSP	0	4	0	0	0	4	0.1%
WCSP (in review)	457	1,409	72	669	1	2,608	82.7%