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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Epiphyllum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Epiphyllum anguliger (Lem.) G.Don	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Epiphyllum baueri Dorsch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Epiphyllum cartagense (F.A.C.Weber) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Epiphyllum caudatum Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Epiphyllum crenatum (Lindl.) G.Don	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Epiphyllum floribundum Kimnach	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Epiphyllum grandilobum (F.A.C.Weber) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Epiphyllum hookeri Haw.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Epiphyllum laui Kimnach	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Epiphyllum lepidocarpum (F.A.C.Weber) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Epiphyllum oxypetalum (DC.) Haw.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Epiphyllum phyllanthus (L.) Haw.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Epiphyllum pumilum (Vaupel) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Epiphyllum thomasianum (K.Schum.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Epiphyllum trimetrale Croizat	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 82 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Epiphyllum. Of these 15 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 28 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Epiphyllum. 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 82 species names for the genus Epiphyllum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	15	18.3%
◕	Synonym	35	42.7%
◕	Unplaced	5	6.1%
◕	Unassessed	27	32.9%

All names

The status of the 110 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Epiphyllum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	23	20.9%
◕	Synonym	53	48.2%
◕	Unplaced	5	4.5%
◕	Unassessed	29	26.4%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 82 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Epiphyllum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	15	29	0	0	44	53.7%
	Low confidence	0	6	5	27	38	46.3%

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