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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Gymnocalycium

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Gymnocalycium alboareolatum Rausch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium amerhauseri H.Till	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium andreae (Boed.) Backeb. & F.M.Knuth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium anisitsii (K.Schum.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium baldianum (Speg.) Speg.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium bayrianum Till ex H.Till	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium bodenbenderianum (Hosseus ex A.Berger) A.Berger	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium bruchii (Speg.) Hosseus	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium calochlorum (Boed.) Y.Itô	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium capillense (Schick) Hosseus	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium castellanosii Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium chacoense Amerh.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium chiquitanum Cárdenas	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium coloradense F.Berger	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium denudatum (Link & Otto) Pfeiff. ex Mittler	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium dubniorum Halda & Milt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium erinaceum J.G.Lamb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium erolesii Neuhuber & C.A.L.Bercht	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium eurypleurum F.Ritter	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium eytianum Cárdenas	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium fischeri Halda & al.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium frankianum Rausch ex H.Till & Amerh.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium gaponii Neuhuber	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium gibbosum (Haw.) Pfeiff. ex Mittler	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium horstii Buining	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium hossei (F.Haage) A.Berger	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium hybopleurum (K.Schum.) Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium hyptiacanthum (Lem.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium intertextum Backeb. ex H.Till	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium jochumii Neuhuber	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium kieslingii O.Ferrari	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium kroenleinii R.Kiesling, Rausch & O.Ferrari	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium kuehhasii Neuhuber & R.Sperling	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium leptanthum (Speg.) Speg.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium marsoneri Fric ex Y.Itô	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium mazanense (Backeb.) Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium mesopotamicum R.Kiesling	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium mihanovichii (Fric ex Gürke) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium miltii Halda, Kupcák, Lukasik & Sladk.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium monvillei (Lem.) Pfeiff. ex Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium mostii (Gürke) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium mucidum Oehme	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium nataliae Neuhuber	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium neuhuberi H.Till & W.Till	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium ochoterenae Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium oenanthemum Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium paediophilum F.Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Gymnocalycium papschii H.Till	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium paraguayense (K.Schum.) Hosseus	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium parvulum (Speg.) Speg.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium pediophylum Schütz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium pflanzii (Vaupel) Werderm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium platense (Speg.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium poeschlii Neuhuber	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium pugionacanthum Backeb. ex H.Till	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium quehlianum (F.Haage ex Quehl) Vaupel ex Hosseus	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium ragonesei A.Cast.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium raineri H.Till	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium rauschii H.Till & W.Till	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium reductum (Link) Pfeiff. & Otto	Accepted		TRO
Gymnocalycium riteranum Rausch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium ritterianum Rausch	Accepted		TRO
Gymnocalycium robustum R.Kiesling, O.Ferrari & Metzing	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium rosae H.Till	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium saglionis (Cels) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium schickendantzii (F.A.C.Weber) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium schroederianum Osten	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium spegazzinii Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium stenopleurum F.Ritter	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium striglianum Jeggle ex H.Till	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium stuckertii (Speg.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium taningaense Piltz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium uebelmannianum Rausch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Gymnocalycium walteri H.Till	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 189 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Gymnocalycium. Of these 74 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 201 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Gymnocalycium. 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 189 species names for the genus Gymnocalycium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	74	39.2%
◕	Synonym	92	48.7%
◕	Unplaced	2	1.1%
◕	Unassessed	21	11.1%

All names

The status of the 390 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Gymnocalycium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	92	23.6%
◕	Synonym	268	68.7%
◕	Unplaced	2	0.5%
◕	Unassessed	28	7.2%

Of these names,

• 9 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 189 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Gymnocalycium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	71	80	0	0	151	79.9%
	Low confidence	3	12	2	21	38	20.1%

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