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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Echinocactus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Echinocactus grusonii Hildm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocactus horizonthalonius Lem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocactus parryi Engelm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocactus platyacanthus Link & Otto	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocactus polycephalus Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocactus texensis Hopffer	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 742 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Echinocactus. Of these 6 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 247 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Echinocactus. 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 742 species names for the genus Echinocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	0.8%
◕	Synonym	320	43.1%
◕	Unplaced	81	10.9%
◕	Unassessed	335	45.1%

All names

The status of the 989 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Echinocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	9	0.9%
◕	Synonym	497	50.3%
◕	Unplaced	81	8.2%
◕	Unassessed	402	40.6%

Of these names,

• 5 are recorded as invalid
• 8 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 742 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Echinocactus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	6	244	0	0	250	33.7%
	Low confidence	0	76	81	335	492	66.3%

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