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The genus Mesanthemum is in the family Eriocaulaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Mesanthemum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Mesanthemum africanum Moldenke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Mesanthemum albidum Lecomte	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Mesanthemum angustitepalum Kimp.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Mesanthemum auratum Lecomte	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Mesanthemum bennae Jacq.-Fél.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Mesanthemum cupricola Kimp.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Mesanthemum glabrum Kimp.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Mesanthemum jaegeri Jacq.-Fél.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Mesanthemum pilosum Kimp.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Mesanthemum prescottianum (Bong.) Körn.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Mesanthemum pubescens (Lam.) Körn.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Mesanthemum radicans (Benth.) Körn.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Mesanthemum reductum H.E.Hess	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Mesanthemum rutenbergianum Körn.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Mesanthemum variabile Kimp.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 27 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Mesanthemum. Of these 15 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Mesanthemum. 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 27 species names for the genus Mesanthemum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	15	55.6%
◕	Synonym	12	44.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 29 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Mesanthemum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	15	51.7%
◕	Synonym	14	48.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

The confidence with which the status of the 27 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Mesanthemum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	15	11	0	0	26	96.3%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	3.7%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Mesanthemum is as follows: