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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Selenicereus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Selenicereus anthonyanus (Alexander) D.R. Hunt	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Selenicereus atropilosus Kimnach	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus boeckmannii (Otto ex Salm-Dyck) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus brevispinus Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus chontalensis (Alexander) Kimnach	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Selenicereus chrysocardium (Alexander) Kimnach	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Selenicereus coniflorus (Weing.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus donkelaarii (Salm-Dyck) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus extensus (Salm-Dyck ex DC.) Leuenb.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Selenicereus grandiflorus (L.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23	4
Selenicereus hallensis Weing. ex Borg	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus hamatus (Scheidw.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus hondurensis (K.Schum.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus inermis Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus innesii Kimnach	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus longicaudatus (F.A.C.Weber) Borg	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus macdonaldiae (Hook.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus maxonii Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus megalanthus (K. Schum. ex Vaupel) Moran	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Selenicereus mirandae Bravo	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus murrillii Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus nelsonii (Weing.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus paradisiacus (Vaupel) Borg	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus pteranthus (Link ex A. Dietr.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Selenicereus rothii (Weing.) A.Berger	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus rubineus Kimnach	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus spinulosus (DC.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus testudo (Karw. ex Zucc.) Buxb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus tricae D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus vagans (K.Brandegee) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus validus S.Arias & U.Guzmán	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus validus Arias & Guzmán	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Selenicereus vaupelii A.Berger	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Selenicereus wercklei (F.A.C. Weber) Britton & Rose	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Selenicereus wittii (K.Schum.) G.D.Rowley	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 104 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Selenicereus. Of these 28 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 34 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Selenicereus. 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 104 species names for the genus Selenicereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	28	26.9%
◕	Synonym	57	54.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	19	18.3%

All names

The status of the 138 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Selenicereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	32	23.2%
◕	Synonym	87	63.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	19	13.8%

Of the species names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 104 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Selenicereus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	20	43	0	0	63	60.6%
	Low confidence	8	14	0	19	41	39.4%

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