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Thelocactus

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Thelocactus

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Thelocactus bicolor (Galeotti) Britton & Rose Accepted M TRO
Thelocactus conothelos (Regel & Klein) F.M. Knuth Accepted M TRO
Thelocactus hastifer (Werderm. & Boed.) F.M. Knuth Accepted L TRO
Thelocactus heterochromus (F.A.C. Weber) Oosten Accepted M TRO
Thelocactus hexaedrophorus (Lem.) Britton & Rose Accepted L TRO
Thelocactus lausseri Riha & Busek Accepted M TRO
Thelocactus leucacanthus (Zucc. ex Pfeiff.) Britton & Rose Accepted L TRO
Thelocactus macdowellii (Rebut ex Quehl) W.T. Marshall Accepted L TRO
Thelocactus panarottanus Halda Accepted M TRO
Thelocactus rinconensis (Poselger) Britton & Rose Accepted M TRO
Thelocactus setispinus (Engelm.) E.F. Anderson Accepted L TRO
Thelocactus tulensis (Poselger) Britton & Rose Accepted L TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 62 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Thelocactus. Of these 12 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 34 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Thelocactus. 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 62 species names for the genus Thelocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 12 19.4%
◕ Synonym 31 50.0%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 19 30.6%

All names

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

Status Total
◕ Accepted 31 32.3%
◕ Synonym 46 47.9%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 19 19.8%

The confidence with which the status of the 62 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Thelocactus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 6 20 0 0 26 41.9%
Low confidence 6 11 0 19 36 58.1%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 12 31 0 0 0 43 69.4%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 19 0 19 30.6%