⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Espostoa

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Espostoa blossfeldiorum (Werderm.) Buxb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Espostoa calva F.Ritter	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Espostoa frutescens Madsen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Espostoa guentheri (Kupper) Buxb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Espostoa haagei (Poselger ex Rumpler) F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Espostoa lanata (Kunth) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Espostoa melanostele (Vaupel) Borg	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Espostoa mirabilis F.Ritter	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Espostoa ritteri Buining	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Espostoa senilis (F.Ritter) N.P.Taylor	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Espostoa utcubambensis G.J.Charles	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 29 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Espostoa. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 10 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Espostoa. 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 29 species names for the genus Espostoa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	37.9%
◕	Synonym	13	44.8%
◕	Unplaced	3	10.3%
◕	Unassessed	2	6.9%

All names

The status of the 39 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Espostoa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	14	35.9%
◕	Synonym	20	51.3%
◕	Unplaced	3	7.7%
◕	Unassessed	2	5.1%

The confidence with which the status of the 29 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Espostoa, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	10	12	0	0	22	75.9%
	Low confidence	1	1	3	2	7	24.1%

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