Contains 2 accepted taxa overall.

Characteristics
Melinis P.Beauv.
STINKGRASS
Classification
POALES
Melinis
Citation
MELINIS Palisot de Beauvois, Ess. Agrostogr. 54, pl. 11(4). 1812.
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TYPE: Melinis minutiflora Palisot de Beauvois
Species
Scientific Name Common Name Herbarium Specimens Status Photos
Melinis minutiflora MOLASSESGRASS Not Native Y
Melinis repens ROSE NATALGRASS Not Native UPL (NWPL) Y
[Family identification key]
1.  Sheaths and blades densely pilose, sticky, aromatic; spikelets 1.7-2.4 mm long, glabrate, lemmas often awned; glumes and pedicels glabrous, scabridulous; lower florets without paleas
1.  Sheaths glabrate to moderately pilose, not noticeably sticky nor aromatic; spikelets 2-5.7 mm long, copiously hairy (glumes and usually pedicels), with hairs to 7 mm long, glumes or lemmas often awned; lower florets with paleas
Genus Synonyms
Synonym Full Citation Basionym Type
Monachyron Monachyron Parlatore ex Hooker, Niger Fl. 190. 1849. TYPE: Monachyron villosum Parlatore ex Hooker
Rhynchelythrum Rhynchelythrum Nees von Esenbeck, in Lindley, Intr. Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2. 378, 446. 1836. TYPE: Rhynchelythrum dregeanum Nees von Esenbeck
Suardia Suardia Schrank, Pl. Rar. Hort. Monac. 58. 1820. TYPE: Suardia picta Schrank
Tristegis Tristegis C. Nees von Esenbeck, Horae Phys. Berol. 47, t. 7. 1820. TYPE: Tristegis glutinosa C. Nees von Esenbeck