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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Cactaceae

Cactaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

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A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Cactaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Cactaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 176 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 13,160 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Cactaceae. Of these 2,233 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 3,847 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Cactaceae. 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 13,160 species names for the family Cactaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,233	17.0%
◕	Synonym	5,422	41.2%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	5,504	41.8%

All names

The status of the 17,007 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Cactaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,715	16.0%
◕	Synonym	8,444	49.7%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	5,847	34.4%

Of the species names,

74 are recorded as invalid
81 are recorded as illegitimate
4 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 3 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 13,160 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Cactaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
Medium confidence	2,004	4,323	0	0	6,327	48.1%
Low confidence	229	1,099	1	5,504	6,833	51.9%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Cactaceae is as follows:

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
TICA	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.0%
Tropicos	1,216	2,681	0	446	0	4,343	33.0%
WCSP (in review)	1,017	2,741	0	5,058	3	8,816	67.0%