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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Sclerocactus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Sclerocactus blainei S.L. Welsh & K.H. Thorne	Accepted		TRO
Sclerocactus brevispinus K.D. Heil & J.M. Porter	Accepted		TRO
Sclerocactus cloverae K.D. Heil & J.M. Porter	Accepted		TRO
Sclerocactus glaucus (K. Schum.) L.D. Benson	Accepted		TRO
Sclerocactus mesae-verdae (Boissev. & C. Davidson) L.D. Benson	Accepted		TRO
Sclerocactus nyensis Hochstätter	Accepted		TRO
Sclerocactus papyracanthus (Engelm.) N.P. Taylor	Accepted		TRO
Sclerocactus parviflorus Clover & Jotter	Accepted		TRO
Sclerocactus polyancistrus (Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow) Britton & Rose	Accepted		TRO
Sclerocactus pubispinus (Engelm.) L.D. Benson	Accepted		TRO
Sclerocactus scheeri (Salm-Dyck) N.P. Taylor	Accepted		TRO
Sclerocactus sileri (L.D. Benson) K.D. Heil & J.M. Porter	Accepted		TRO
Sclerocactus spinosior (Engelm.) D. Woodruff & L.D. Benson	Accepted		TRO
Sclerocactus wetlandicus Hochstätter	Accepted		TRO
Sclerocactus whipplei (Engelm. & J.M. Bigelow) Britton & Rose	Accepted		TRO
Sclerocactus wrightiae L.D. Benson	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 30 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sclerocactus. Of these 16 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 23 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Sclerocactus. 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 30 species names for the genus Sclerocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	53.3%
◕	Synonym	13	43.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	3.3%

All names

The status of the 53 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sclerocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	30.2%
◕	Synonym	36	67.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.9%

The confidence with which the status of the 30 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Sclerocactus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	11	10	0	0	21	70.0%
	Low confidence	5	3	0	1	9	30.0%

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