The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

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

Pereskia

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pereskia

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Pereskia aculeata Mill. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Pereskia bleo (Kunth) DC. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Pereskia grandifolia Haw. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Pereskia guamacho F.A.C.Weber Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Pereskia horrida DC. Accepted L TRO
Pereskia lychnidiflora DC. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Pereskia nemorosa Rojas Acosta Accepted M TRO
Pereskia portulacifolia (L.) DC. Accepted L TRO
Pereskia sacharosa Griseb. Accepted M TRO
Pereskia weberiana K. Schum. Accepted M TRO
Pereskia zinniiflora DC. Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 72 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pereskia. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 13 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pereskia. 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 72 species names for the genus Pereskia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 11 15.3%
Synonym 38 52.8%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 23 31.9%

All names

The status of the 85 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pereskia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 13 15.3%
Synonym 49 57.6%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 23 27.1%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 72 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pereskia, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 9 35 0 0 44 61.1%
Low confidence 2 3 0 23 28 38.9%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 6 31 0 2 0 39 54.2%
WCSP (in review) 5 7 0 21 0 33 45.8%