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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Melocactus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Melocactus andinus R.Gruber ex N.P.Taylor	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melocactus azureus Buining & Brederoo	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melocactus bahiensis (Britton & Rose) Luetzelb.	Accepted		TRO
Melocactus bellavistensis Rauh & Backeb.	Accepted		TRO
Melocactus braunii Esteves	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melocactus broadwayi (Britton & Rose) A. Berger	Accepted		TRO
Melocactus caroli-linnaei N.P. Taylor	Accepted		TRO
Melocactus concinnus Buining & Brederoo	Accepted		TRO
Melocactus coronatus (Lam.) Backeb.	Accepted		TRO
Melocactus curvispinus Pfeiff.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melocactus deinacanthus Buining & Brederoo	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melocactus ernestii Vaupel	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melocactus estevesii P.J.Braun	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melocactus ferreophilus Buining & Brederoo	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melocactus glaucescens Buining & Brederoo	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melocactus harlowii (Britton & Rose) Vaupel	Accepted		TRO
Melocactus intortus (Mill.) Urb.	Accepted		TRO
Melocactus lanssensianus P.J.Braun	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melocactus lemairei (Monv. ex Lem.) Miq. ex Lem.	Accepted		TRO
Melocactus levitestatus Buining & Brederoo	Accepted		TRO
Melocactus macracanthos (Salm-Dyck) Link & Otto	Accepted		TRO
Melocactus matanzanus León	Accepted		TRO
Melocactus mazelianus Ríha	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melocactus neryi K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melocactus oreas Miq.	Accepted		TRO
Melocactus peruvianus Vaupel	Accepted		TRO
Melocactus schatzlii H.Till & R.Gruber	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melocactus smithii (Alexander) Buining ex G.D. Rowley	Accepted		TRO
Melocactus violaceus Pfeiff.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Melocactus zehntneri (Britton & Rose) Luetzelb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 279 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Melocactus. Of these 30 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 64 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Melocactus. 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 279 species names for the genus Melocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	30	10.8%
◕	Synonym	88	31.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	161	57.7%

All names

The status of the 343 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Melocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	42	12.2%
◕	Synonym	139	40.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	162	47.2%

The confidence with which the status of the 279 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Melocactus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	22	61	0	0	83	29.7%
	Low confidence	8	27	0	161	196	70.3%

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