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- Cephalocereus
- Cactaceae
- Angiosperms
Cephalocereus
The genus Cephalocereus is in the family Cactaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).
Statistics are at the end of the page.
Species in Cephalocereus
See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.
Statistics
The Plant List includes 66 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cephalocereus. Of these 5 are accepted species names.
The Plant List includes a further 6 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cephalocereus. 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 66 species names for the genus Cephalocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 5 | 7.6% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 26 | 39.4% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 35 | 53.0% |
All names
The status of the 72 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cephalocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 5 | 6.9% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 29 | 40.3% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 38 | 52.8% |
The confidence with which the status of the 66 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cephalocereus, are assigned as follows:
| Confidence level | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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High confidence | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
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Medium confidence | 5 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 37.9% |
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Low confidence | 0 | 6 | 0 | 35 | 41 | 62.1% |
The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Cephalocereus is as follows:
| Source of record | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Misapplied | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropicos | 0 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 22.7% |
| WCSP (in review) | 5 | 15 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 51 | 77.3% |