The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Epiphyllum

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

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:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 4 0 0 0 4 4.9%
WCSP (in review) 15 31 5 27 0 78 95.1%