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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cleistocactus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cleistocactus acanthurus (Vaupel) D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus baumannii (Lem.) Lem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus brookeae Cárdenas	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus buchtienii Backeb. ex Backeb. & F.M.Knuth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus candelilla Cárdenas	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus chrysocephalus (F.Ritter) Mottram	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus × crassiserpens Rauh & Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus erectispinus (Rauh & Backeb.) Ostolaza	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus erigens (Rauh & Backeb.) Ostolaza	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus fieldianus (Britton & Rose) D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus hoffmannii G.J.Charles	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus hyalacanthus (K.Schum.) Rol.-Goss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus hystrix (Rauh & Backeb.) Ostolaza	Accepted		TRO
Cleistocactus icosagonus (Kunth) A.Weber	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus jajoanus (Backeb.) G.J.Charles	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus laniceps (K. Schum.) Gosselin	Accepted		TRO
Cleistocactus longiserpens Leuenb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus luribayensis Cárdenas	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus morawetzianus Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus muyurinensis F.Ritter	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus orthogonus Cárdenas	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus pachycladus (Rauh & Backeb.) Ostolaza	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus palhuayensis F.Ritter & Shahori	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus parapetiensis Cárdenas	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus parviflorus (K.Schum.) Rol.-Goss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus plagiostoma (Vaupel) D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus pycnacanthus (Rauh & Backeb.) Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus reae Cárdenas	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus ritteri Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus roezlii (Haage ex K.Schum.) Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus × rojoi Cárdenas	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus roseiflorus (Buining) G.D.Rowley	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus samaipatanus (Cárdenas) D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus sepium (Kunth) A.Weber	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus serpens (Kunth) A.Weber	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus sextonianus (Backeb.) D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus smaragdiflorus (F.A.C.Weber) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus straussii (Heese) Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus tenuiserpens Rauh & Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus tominensis (Weing.) Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus variispinus F.Ritter	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus winteri D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cleistocactus xylorhizus (F.Ritter) Ostolaza	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 118 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cleistocactus. Of these 43 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 42 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cleistocactus. 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 118 species names for the genus Cleistocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	43	36.4%
◕	Synonym	59	50.0%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.8%
◕	Unassessed	15	12.7%

All names

The status of the 160 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cleistocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	54	33.8%
◕	Synonym	88	55.0%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.6%
◕	Unassessed	17	10.6%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 118 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cleistocactus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	39	49	0	0	88	74.6%
	Low confidence	4	10	1	15	30	25.4%

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