Melinis

Accepted species 23 Documented here 3 Family Poaceae

Accepted species 23 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Melinis repens (Willd.) Zizka 2,043 documented
Melinis minutiflora P.Beauv. 122 documented
Melinis nerviglumis (Franch.) Zizka 110 documented
Melinis ambigua Hack. 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis amethystea (Franch.) Zizka 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis angolensis Rendle 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis ascendens Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis biaristata (Rendle) Stapf & C.E.Hubb. 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis drakensbergensis (C.E.Hubb. & Schweick.) Clayton 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis effusa (Rendle) Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis gossweileri C.E.Hubb. 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis kallimorpha (Clayton) Zizka 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis longiseta (A.Rich.) Zizka 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis macrochaeta Stapf & C.E.Hubb. 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis maroccana (Maire & Sam.) M.B.Crespo, M.Á.Alonso & Mart.-Azorín 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis reynaudioides (C.E.Hubb.) Zizka 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis rupicola (Rendle) Zizka 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis scabrida (K.Schum.) Hack. 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis subglabra Mez 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis tanatricha (Rendle) Zizka 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis tenuissima Stapf 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis tomentosa Rendle 0 below the evidence gate
Melinis welwitschii Rendle 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.