The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Loxanthocereus

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Loxanthocereus

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Loxanthocereus deserticola F. Ritter Accepted M TRO
Loxanthocereus erectispinus Rauh & Backeb. Accepted M TRO
Loxanthocereus ferrugineus Rauh & Backeb. Accepted M TRO
Loxanthocereus hoffmannii F. Ritter Accepted M TRO
Loxanthocereus hystrix Rauh & Backeb. Accepted M TRO
Loxanthocereus montanus F. Ritter Accepted M TRO
Loxanthocereus sulcifer Rauh & Backeb. Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 51 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Loxanthocereus. Of these 7 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 5 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Loxanthocereus. 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 51 species names for the genus Loxanthocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 7 13.7%
◕ Synonym 43 84.3%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 1 2.0%

All names

The status of the 56 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Loxanthocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 7 12.5%
◕ Synonym 48 85.7%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 1 1.8%

The confidence with which the status of the 51 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Loxanthocereus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 7 41 0 0 48 94.1%
Low confidence 0 2 0 1 3 5.9%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 7 41 0 0 0 48 94.1%
WCSP (in review) 0 2 0 1 0 3 5.9%