The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Oreocereus

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Oreocereus

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Oreocereus celsianus (Lem. ex Salm-Dyck) Riccob. Accepted M TRO
Oreocereus doelzianus (Backeb.) Borg Accepted M TRO
Oreocereus fossulatus (Labour.) Backeb. Accepted M TRO
Oreocereus hempelianus (Gürke) D.R. Hunt Accepted L TRO
Oreocereus leucotrichus (Phil.) Wagenkn. Accepted M TRO
Oreocereus piscoensis (Rauh & Backeb.) F. Ritter Accepted M TRO
Oreocereus ritteri Cullman Accepted M TRO
Oreocereus tacnaensis F. Ritter Accepted M TRO
Oreocereus trollii Kupper Accepted M TRO
Oreocereus varicolor Backeb. Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 22 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Oreocereus. Of these 10 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 7 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Oreocereus. 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 22 species names for the genus Oreocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 10 45.5%
Synonym 11 50.0%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 1 4.5%

All names

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

Status Total
Accepted 10 34.5%
Synonym 18 62.1%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 1 3.4%

The confidence with which the status of the 22 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Oreocereus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 9 10 0 0 19 86.4%
Low confidence 1 1 0 1 3 13.6%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 10 11 0 0 0 21 95.5%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 1 0 1 4.5%