The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Cephalocereus

The genus Cephalocereus is in the family Cactaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cephalocereus

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source Date supplied Infra. rec.
Cephalocereus alensis (A.Weber) Britton & Rose Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus apicicephalium E.Y.Dawson Accepted M WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus arrabidae (Lem.) Britton & Rose Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23 1
Cephalocereus bakeri Britton & Rose Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus catingicola (Gürke) Britton & Rose Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus columna-trajani (Karw. ex Pfeiff.) K.Schum. Accepted M WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus cometes (Scheidw.) Britton & Rose Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus dautwitzii (Seitz) Voss Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus exerens (K.Schum.) L.H.Bailey Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus fouachianus Quehl Unresolved L TRO 2012-04-18
Cephalocereus glaucescens (Labour.) Borg Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus glaucochrous (Werderm.) Borg Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus guerreronis (Backeb.) Buxb. Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus hapalacanthus (Werderm.) Borg Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus hermentianus (Monv. ex Lem.) Britton & Rose Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus johansenii Frič Unresolved L TRO 2012-04-18
Cephalocereus keyensis Britton & Rose Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus leucocephalus (Poselg.) Britton & Rose Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus leucostele (Gürke) Britton & Rose Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus luetzelburgii (Vaupel) Borg Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus maguirei Gilly Unresolved L TRO 2012-04-18
Cephalocereus nizandensis (Bravo & T.MacDoug.) Buxb. Accepted M WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus oligolepis (Vaupel) Borg Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus pasacana Engl. & Prantl Unresolved L TRO 2012-04-18
Cephalocereus pentaedrophorus (Labour.) Britton & Rose Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus piauhyensis (Gürke) Britton & Rose Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus polygonus (DC.) Britton & Rose Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus purpureus Gürke Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus robinii (Lem.) Britton & Rose Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23 1
Cephalocereus rupicola (Werderm.) Borg Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus schlumbergeri (Weber ex K.Schum.) Urb. Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus scoparius (Poselg.) Britton & Rose Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus senilis (Haw.) Pfeiff. Accepted M WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus sergipensis (Werderm.) Borg Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus tehuacanus (Weing.) Borg Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Cephalocereus totolapensis (Bravo & T.MacDoug.) Buxb. Accepted M WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 66 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cephalocereus. Of these 5 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 6 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cephalocereus. 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 66 species names for the genus Cephalocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 5 7.6%
Synonym 26 39.4%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 35 53.0%

All names

The status of the 72 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cephalocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 5 6.9%
Synonym 29 40.3%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 38 52.8%

The confidence with which the status of the 66 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cephalocereus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 5 20 0 0 25 37.9%
Low confidence 0 6 0 35 41 62.1%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 11 0 4 0 15 22.7%
WCSP (in review) 5 15 0 31 0 51 77.3%