The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Platyopuntia

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 M TRO
Platyopuntia infesta F. Ritter Accepted M 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:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 2 22 0 0 0 24 61.5%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 15 0 15 38.5%