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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Platyopuntia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Platyopuntia apurimacensis F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Platyopuntia infesta F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 39 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Platyopuntia. Of these 2 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Platyopuntia. 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 39 species names for the genus Platyopuntia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	5.1%
◕	Synonym	22	56.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	15	38.5%

All names

The status of the 40 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Platyopuntia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	5.0%
◕	Synonym	23	57.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	15	37.5%

The confidence with which the status of the 39 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Platyopuntia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	2	22	0	0	24	61.5%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	15	15	38.5%

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