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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Peniocereus

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Peniocereus castellae Sánchez-Mej.	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus castellanosii (Scheinvar) Scheinvar	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus cuixmalensis Sánchez-Mej.	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus fosterianus Cutak	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus greggii (Engelm.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus guatemalensis (Britton & Rose) D.R. Hunt	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus haackianus Backeb.	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus hirschtianus (K. Schum.) D.R. Hunt	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus johnstonii Britton & Rose	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus lazaro-cardenasii (Contreras et al.) D.R. Hunt	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus macdougallii Cutak	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus maculatus (Weing.) Cutak	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus marianus (Gentry) Sánchez-Mej.	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus marnierianus Backeb.	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus oaxacensis (Britton & Rose) D.R. Hunt	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus occidentalis Bravo	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus papillosus (Britton & Rose) U. Guzmán	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus rosei J.G. Ortega	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus striatus (Brandegee) Buxb.	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus tepalcatepecanus Sánchez-Mej.	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus viperinus (F.A.C. Weber) Buxb.	Accepted		TRO
Peniocereus zopilotensis (Meyran) Buxb.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 27 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Peniocereus. Of these 22 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 4 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Peniocereus. 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 27 species names for the genus Peniocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	22	81.5%
◕	Synonym	4	14.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	3.7%

All names

The status of the 31 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Peniocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	23	74.2%
◕	Synonym	7	22.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	3.2%

The confidence with which the status of the 27 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Peniocereus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	18	1	0	0	19	70.4%
	Low confidence	4	3	0	1	8	29.6%

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