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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pediocactus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Pediocactus bradyi L.D. Benson	Accepted		TRO
Pediocactus despainii S.L. Welsh & Goodrich	Accepted		TRO
Pediocactus knowltonii L.D. Benson	Accepted		TRO
Pediocactus nigrispinus (Hochstätter) Hochstätter	Accepted		TRO
Pediocactus paradinei B.W. Benson	Accepted		TRO
Pediocactus peeblesianus (Croizat) L.D. Benson	Accepted		TRO
Pediocactus schmiedickeanus (Boed.) Halda	Accepted		TRO
Pediocactus sileri (Engelm. ex J.M. Coult.) L.D. Benson	Accepted		TRO
Pediocactus simpsonii (Engelm.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		TRO
Pediocactus winkleri K.D. Heil	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 56 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pediocactus. Of these 10 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 28 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pediocactus. 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 56 species names for the genus Pediocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	10	17.9%
◕	Synonym	23	41.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	23	41.1%

All names

The status of the 84 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pediocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	12	14.3%
◕	Synonym	49	58.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	23	27.4%

The confidence with which the status of the 56 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pediocactus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	8	16	0	0	24	42.9%
	Low confidence	2	7	0	23	32	57.1%

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