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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Matucana

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Matucana aurantiaca (Vaupel) Buxb.	Accepted		TRO
Matucana aureiflora F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Matucana blancii Backeb.	Accepted		TRO
Matucana calliantha F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Matucana celendinensis F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Matucana currundayensis F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Matucana formosa F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Matucana fruticosa F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Matucana hastifera F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Matucana haynei (Otto ex Salm-Dyck) Britton & Rose	Accepted		TRO
Matucana huagalensis (Donald & A.B. Lau) Bregmann	Accepted		TRO
Matucana hystrix Rauh & Backeb.	Accepted		TRO
Matucana intertexta F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Matucana krahnii (Donald) Bregmann	Accepted		TRO
Matucana madisoniorum (Hutchison) G.D. Rowley	Accepted		TRO
Matucana mirabilis Buining	Accepted		TRO
Matucana myriacantha (Vaupel) Buxb.	Accepted		TRO
Matucana oreodoxa (F. Ritter) Slaba	Accepted		TRO
Matucana paucicostata F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Matucana polzii L. Diers, Donald & E. Zecher	Accepted		TRO
Matucana pujupatii (Donald & A.B. Lau) Bregmann	Accepted		TRO
Matucana ritteri Buining	Accepted		TRO
Matucana tuberculata (Donald) Bregman, et al.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 45 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Matucana. Of these 23 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 21 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Matucana. 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 45 species names for the genus Matucana recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	23	51.1%
◕	Synonym	22	48.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 66 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Matucana recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	24	36.4%
◕	Synonym	40	60.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	3.0%

The confidence with which the status of the 45 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Matucana, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	17	19	0	0	36	80.0%
	Low confidence	6	3	0	0	9	20.0%

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