The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Cactus

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cactus

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Cactus acanthophlegmus (Lehm.) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Cactus brownii (Toumey) Toumey Accepted M TRO
Cactus ceratocentrus (Bergman) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Cactus conifer (Haw.) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Cactus dentatus (K. Schum.) Ruiz ex Mart. Accepted M TRO
Cactus euchlorus (Ehrenb.) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Cactus goodrichii (Engelm.) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Cactus guilleminianus (Lem.) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Cactus hexacanthus (Salm-Dyck) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Cactus laniferus (J.M. Coult.) Kuntze Accepted L TRO
Cactus pyrrhochroacanthus (Lem.) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Cactus roseus (Scheidw.) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Cactus testudinis-crus (F.A.C. Weber) Thierry de Menonville Accepted M TRO
Cactus turbinatus (Hook.) Kuntze Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 680 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cactus. Of these 14 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 11 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cactus. 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 680 species names for the genus Cactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 14 2.1%
Synonym 170 25.0%
Unplaced 38 5.6%
Unassessed 458 67.4%

All names

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

Status Total
Accepted 14 2.0%
Synonym 177 25.6%
Unplaced 38 5.5%
Unassessed 462 66.9%

Of these names,

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 680 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cactus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 13 82 0 0 95 14.0%
Low confidence 1 88 38 458 585 86.0%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 14 13 0 25 0 52 7.6%
WCSP (in review) 0 157 38 433 1 629 92.5%