Cactaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

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A list of all accepted names in Cactaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Cactaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 174 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 12,946 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Cactaceae. Of these 2,047 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 3,376 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Cactaceae. 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 12,946 species names for the family Cactaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,047	15.8%
◕	Synonym	5,389	41.6%
◕	Unplaced	401	3.1%
◕	Unassessed	5,109	39.5%

All names

The status of the 16,322 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Cactaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,610	16.0%
◕	Synonym	7,835	48.0%
◕	Unplaced	401	2.5%
◕	Unassessed	5,476	33.5%

Of these names,

61 are recorded as invalid
73 are recorded as illegitimate
3 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 12,946 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Cactaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
Medium confidence	1,806	4,201	0	0	6,007	46.4%
Low confidence	241	1,188	401	5,109	6,939	53.6%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	1,074	2,932	0	389	0	4,395	33.9%
WCSP (in review)	973	2,457	401	4,720	1	8,552	66.1%