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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Coryphantha

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Coryphantha borwigii (J.A.Purpus) A.Berger	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha clava (Pfeiff.) Lem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha clavata (Scheidw.) Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha compacta (Engelm.) Orcutt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha cornifera (DC.) Lem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha delaetiana (Quehl) A.Berger	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha delicata L.Bremer	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha difficilis (Quehl) Orcutt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha durangensis (Ruenge ex Schum.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha echinoidea (Quehl) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha echinus (Engelm.) Orcutt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha elephantidens (Lem.) Lem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha erecta (Lem. ex Pfeiff.) Lem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha georgii Boed.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha glanduligera (Otto & A.Dietr.) Lem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha glassii Dicht & A.Lüthy	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha gracilis L.Bremer & A.B.Lau	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha hintoniorum Dicht & A.Lüthy	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha jalpanensis Buchenau	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha kieferiana (Boed.) A.Berger	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha kracikii Halda, Chalupa & Kupcák	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha longicornis Boed.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha macromeris (Engelm.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha maiz-tablasensis O.Schwarz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha neglecta L.Bremer	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha nickelsiae (K.Brandegee) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha obscura Boed.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha octacantha (DC.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha odorata Boed.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha ottonis (Pfeiff.) Lem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha pallida Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha panarottoi Halda & Horácek	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha poselgeriana (D.Dietr.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha potosiana (Jacobi) Glass & R.A.Foster ex Rowley	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha pseudoechinus Boed.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha pseudonickelsae Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha pulleineana (Backeb.) Glass	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha pycnacantha (Mart.) Lem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha ramillosa Cutak	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha recurvata (Engelm.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha retusa (Pfeiff) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha robustispina (Schott ex Engelm.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha salinensis (Poselg.) Dicht & A.Lüthy	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha salm-dyckiana (Scheer ex Salm-Dyck) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha sulcata (Engelm.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha tripugionacantha A.B.Lau	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha vaupeliana Boed.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha vogtherriana Werderm. & Boed.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha werdermannii Boed.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Coryphantha wohlschlageri Holzeis	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 180 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Coryphantha. Of these 50 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 72 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Coryphantha. 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 180 species names for the genus Coryphantha recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	50	27.8%
◕	Synonym	87	48.3%
◕	Unplaced	19	10.6%
◕	Unassessed	24	13.3%

All names

The status of the 252 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Coryphantha recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	66	26.2%
◕	Synonym	142	56.3%
◕	Unplaced	19	7.5%
◕	Unassessed	25	9.9%

Of these names,

• 5 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 180 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Coryphantha, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	46	79	0	0	125	69.4%
	Low confidence	4	8	19	24	55	30.6%

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