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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Acanthocereus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Acanthocereus baxaniensis (Karw. ex Pfeiff.) Borg.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Acanthocereus griseus Backeb.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Acanthocereus guatemalensis W.T. Marshall	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Acanthocereus horridus Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Acanthocereus occidentalis Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Acanthocereus subinermis Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Acanthocereus tetragonus (L.) Hummelinck	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Acanthocereus undulosus (DC.) Croizat	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 36 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Acanthocereus. Of these 5 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 8 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Acanthocereus. 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 36 species names for the genus Acanthocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	13.9%
◕	Synonym	28	77.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	8.3%

All names

The status of the 44 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Acanthocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	11.4%
◕	Synonym	36	81.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	6.8%

Of the species names,

• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 36 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Acanthocereus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	5	25	0	0	30	83.3%
	Low confidence	0	3	0	3	6	16.7%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Acanthocereus is as follows: