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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Heliocereus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Heliocereus aurantiacus Kimnach	Accepted		TRO
Heliocereus cinnabarinus (Eichlam ex Weing.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		TRO
Heliocereus schrankii (Zucc. ex Seitz) Britton & Rose	Accepted		TRO
Heliocereus speciosus (Cav.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 19 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Heliocereus. Of these 4 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 15 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Heliocereus. 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 19 species names for the genus Heliocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	4	21.1%
◕	Synonym	6	31.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	9	47.4%

All names

The status of the 34 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Heliocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	9	26.5%
◕	Synonym	16	47.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	9	26.5%

The confidence with which the status of the 19 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Heliocereus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	4	6	0	0	10	52.6%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	9	9	47.4%

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