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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Acanthocalycium

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Acanthocalycium klimpelianum (Weidlich & Werderm.) Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthocalycium spiniflorum (K.Schum.) Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 18 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Acanthocalycium. Of these 2 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 7 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Acanthocalycium. 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 18 species names for the genus Acanthocalycium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	11.1%
◕	Synonym	12	66.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	4	22.2%

All names

The status of the 25 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Acanthocalycium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	8.0%
◕	Synonym	18	72.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	5	20.0%

The confidence with which the status of the 18 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Acanthocalycium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	2	11	0	0	13	72.2%
	Low confidence	0	1	0	4	5	27.8%

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