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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pyrrhocactus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Pyrrhocactus confinis F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Pyrrhocactus crispus F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Pyrrhocactus echinus F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Pyrrhocactus floccosus F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Pyrrhocactus marksianus F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Pyrrhocactus pachacoensis Rausch	Accepted		TRO
Pyrrhocactus pilispinus F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Pyrrhocactus pygmaeus F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Pyrrhocactus reconditus F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Pyrrhocactus simulans F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO
Pyrrhocactus taltalensis (F. Ritter) F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 91 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pyrrhocactus. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 5 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pyrrhocactus. 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 91 species names for the genus Pyrrhocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	12.1%
◕	Synonym	21	23.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	59	64.8%

All names

The status of the 96 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pyrrhocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	11.5%
◕	Synonym	24	25.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	61	63.5%

The confidence with which the status of the 91 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pyrrhocactus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	11	21	0	0	32	35.2%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	59	59	64.8%

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