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- Pilosocereus
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Pilosocereus
The genus Pilosocereus is in the family Cactaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).
Statistics are at the end of the page.
Species in Pilosocereus
See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.
Statistics
The Plant List includes 122 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pilosocereus. Of these 56 are accepted species names.
The Plant List includes a further 10 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pilosocereus. 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 122 species names for the genus Pilosocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 56 | 45.9% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 25 | 20.5% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 41 | 33.6% |
All names
The status of the 132 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pilosocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 59 | 44.7% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 30 | 22.7% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 43 | 32.6% |
The confidence with which the status of the 122 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pilosocereus, are assigned as follows:
| Confidence level | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
High confidence | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
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Medium confidence | 43 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 50.8% |
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Low confidence | 13 | 6 | 0 | 41 | 60 | 49.2% |
The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Pilosocereus, are as follows:
| Source of record | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Misapplied | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropicos | 43 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 62 | 50.8% |
| WCSP (in review) | 13 | 7 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 60 | 49.2% |