The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Tephrocactus

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Tephrocactus

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Tephrocactus alexanderi Backeb. Accepted M TRO
Tephrocactus aoracanthus Lem. Accepted M TRO
Tephrocactus chichensis Cárdenas Accepted M TRO
Tephrocactus diademata (Lem.) Lem. Accepted M TRO
Tephrocactus geometricus (A. Cast.) Backeb. Accepted M TRO
Tephrocactus halophilus (Speg.) Backeb. Accepted M TRO
Tephrocactus molinensis (Speg.) Backeb. Accepted M TRO
Tephrocactus multiareolatus F. Ritter Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 125 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Tephrocactus. Of these 8 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 22 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Tephrocactus. 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 125 species names for the genus Tephrocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 8 6.4%
Synonym 66 52.8%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 51 40.8%

All names

The status of the 147 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Tephrocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 8 5.4%
Synonym 86 58.5%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 53 36.1%

The confidence with which the status of the 125 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Tephrocactus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 8 64 0 0 72 57.6%
Low confidence 0 2 0 51 53 42.4%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 8 65 0 0 0 73 58.4%
WCSP (in review) 0 1 0 51 0 52 41.6%