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The genus Myrtus is in the family Myrtaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Myrtus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Myrtus communis L.	Accepted		WCSP
Myrtus nivelii Batt. & Trab.	Accepted		WCSP
Myrtus phyllireaefolia (A. Rich.) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 622 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Myrtus. Of these 3 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 69 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Myrtus. 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 622 species names for the genus Myrtus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3	0.5%
◕	Synonym	556	89.4%
◕	Unplaced	47	7.6%
◕	Unassessed	16	2.6%

All names

The status of the 691 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Myrtus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	0.7%
◕	Synonym	623	90.2%
◕	Unplaced	47	6.8%
◕	Unassessed	16	2.3%

Of these names,

• 12 are recorded as invalid
• 50 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 622 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Myrtus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	2	516	0	0	518	83.3%
	Medium confidence	1	19	0	0	20	3.2%
	Low confidence	0	21	47	16	84	13.5%

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