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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cleistocactus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Cleistocactus acanthurus (Vaupel) D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23	2
Cleistocactus anquinus Gürke	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Cleistocactus baumannii (Lem.) Lem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23	3
Cleistocactus brookeae Cárdenas	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23	1
Cleistocactus buchtienii Backeb. ex Backeb. & F.M.Knuth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus candelilla Cárdenas	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23	1
Cleistocactus celsianus (Cels ex Salm-Dyck) A.Weber	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus chrysocephalus (F.Ritter) Mottram	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus × clavispinus (Rauh & Backeb.) Ostolaza	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus clavispinus Ostolaza	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Cleistocactus colademononis (Diers & Krahn) Mottram	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus × crassiserpens Rauh & Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus × crassiserpens Rauh & Backeberg (pro sp.)	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Cleistocactus erectispinus (Rauh & Backeb.) Ostolaza	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus erigens (Rauh & Backeb.) Ostolaza	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus fieldianus (Britton & Rose) D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23	2
Cleistocactus flavispinus (K.Schum.) Backeb.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus fossulatus Mottram	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus hoffmannii G.J.Charles	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus hyalacanthus (K.Schum.) Rol.-Goss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23	1
Cleistocactus × hystrix (Rauh & Backeb.) Ostolaza	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus hystrix (Rauh & Backeb.) Ostolaza	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Cleistocactus icosagonus (Kunth) A.Weber	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus jajoanus (Backeb.) G.J.Charles	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus × laniceps (K.Schum.) Rol.-Goss.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus laniceps (K. Schum.) Gosselin	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Cleistocactus longiserpens Leuenb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus luribayensis Cárdenas	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus morawetzianus Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23	1
Cleistocactus muyurinensis F.Ritter	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus neoroezlii (F.Ritter) Buxb.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus nivosus Borg	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus orthogonus Cárdenas	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus pachycladus (Rauh & Backeb.) Ostolaza	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus palhuayensis F.Ritter & Shahori	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus parapetiensis Cárdenas	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus parviflorus (K.Schum.) Rol.-Goss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus parvisetus (Pfeiff.) A.Weber	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus plagiostoma (Vaupel) D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus pungens F.Ritter	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus pycnacanthus (Rauh & Backeb.) Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus reae Cárdenas	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus ritteri Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus roezlii (Haage ex K.Schum.) Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus × rojoi Cárdenas	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus roseiflorus (Buining) G.D.Rowley	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus samaipatanus (Cárdenas) D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus sepium (Kunth) A.Weber	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus serpens (Kunth) A.Weber	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus sextonianus (Backeb.) D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus smaragdiflorus (F.A.C.Weber) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus straussii (Heese) Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus tenuiserpens Rauh & Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus tominensis (Weing.) Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23	1
Cleistocactus tupizensis (Vaupel) Backeb.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus variispinus F.Ritter	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus winteri D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cleistocactus xylorhizus (F.Ritter) Ostolaza	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 262 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cleistocactus. Of these 43 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 66 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cleistocactus. 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 262 species names for the genus Cleistocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	43	16.4%
◕	Synonym	197	75.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	22	8.4%

All names

The status of the 328 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cleistocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	54	16.5%
◕	Synonym	250	76.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	24	7.3%

Of the species names,

• 3 are recorded as invalid
• 3 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 262 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cleistocactus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	39	175	0	0	214	81.7%
	Low confidence	4	22	0	22	48	18.3%

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