The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Echinocactus

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Echinocactus

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Echinocactus grusonii Hildm. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echinocactus horizonthalonius Lem. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echinocactus parryi Engelm. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echinocactus platyacanthus Link & Otto Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echinocactus polycephalus Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echinocactus texensis Hopffer Accepted M WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 742 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Echinocactus. Of these 6 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 247 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Echinocactus. 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 742 species names for the genus Echinocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 6 0.8%
Synonym 320 43.1%
Unplaced 81 10.9%
Unassessed 335 45.1%

All names

The status of the 989 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Echinocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 9 0.9%
Synonym 497 50.3%
Unplaced 81 8.2%
Unassessed 402 40.6%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 742 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Echinocactus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 6 244 0 0 250 33.7%
Low confidence 0 76 81 335 492 66.3%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 34 0 88 0 122 16.4%
WCSP (in review) 6 286 81 247 0 620 83.6%