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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pereskia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Pereskia aculeata Mill.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pereskia bleo (Kunth) DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pereskia grandifolia Haw.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pereskia guamacho F.A.C.Weber	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pereskia horrida DC.	Accepted		TRO
Pereskia lychnidiflora DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pereskia nemorosa Rojas Acosta	Accepted		TRO
Pereskia portulacifolia (L.) DC.	Accepted		TRO
Pereskia sacharosa Griseb.	Accepted		TRO
Pereskia weberiana K. Schum.	Accepted		TRO
Pereskia zinniiflora DC.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 72 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pereskia. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 13 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pereskia. 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 72 species names for the genus Pereskia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	15.3%
◕	Synonym	38	52.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	23	31.9%

All names

The status of the 85 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pereskia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	13	15.3%
◕	Synonym	49	57.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	23	27.1%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 72 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pereskia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	9	35	0	0	44	61.1%
	Low confidence	2	3	0	23	28	38.9%

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