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

• 20 are recorded as illegitimate

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: