The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Pachycereus

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pachycereus

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Pachycereus grandis Rose Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum (Engelm. ex S.Watson) Britton & Rose Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Pachycereus pringlei (S.Watson) Britton & Rose Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Pachycereus tepamo Gama & S.Arias Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Pachycereus weberi (J.M.Coult) Backeb. Accepted M WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 28 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pachycereus. Of these 5 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 17 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pachycereus. 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 28 species names for the genus Pachycereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 5 17.9%
Synonym 12 42.9%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 11 39.3%

All names

The status of the 45 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pachycereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 5 11.1%
Synonym 28 62.2%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 12 26.7%

The confidence with which the status of the 28 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pachycereus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 5 10 0 0 15 53.6%
Low confidence 0 2 0 11 13 46.4%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 1 0 2 0 3 10.7%
WCSP (in review) 5 11 0 9 0 25 89.3%