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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pachycereus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Pachycereus grandis Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum (Engelm. ex S.Watson) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pachycereus pringlei (S.Watson) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pachycereus tepamo Gama & S.Arias	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pachycereus weberi (J.M.Coult) Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 28 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pachycereus. Of these 5 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 17 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pachycereus. 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 28 species names for the genus Pachycereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	17.9%
◕	Synonym	12	42.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	11	39.3%

All names

The status of the 45 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pachycereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	11.1%
◕	Synonym	28	62.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	12	26.7%

The confidence with which the status of the 28 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pachycereus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	5	10	0	0	15	53.6%
	Low confidence	0	2	0	11	13	46.4%

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