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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Astrophytum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Astrophytum asterias (Zucc.) Lem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Astrophytum caespitosum (Britton & Rose) Halda & Malina	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Astrophytum capricorne (A.Dietr.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Astrophytum caput-medusae D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Astrophytum mirum Halda & Panar.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Astrophytum myriostigma Lem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Astrophytum ornatum (DC.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 33 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Astrophytum. Of these 6 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 61 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Astrophytum. 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 33 species names for the genus Astrophytum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	18.2%
◕	Synonym	25	75.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	6.1%

All names

The status of the 94 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Astrophytum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	6.4%
◕	Synonym	86	91.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	2.1%

Of the species names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 33 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Astrophytum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	5	18	0	0	23	69.7%
	Low confidence	1	7	0	2	10	30.3%

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