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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Micranthocereus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Micranthocereus albicephalus (Buining & Brederoo) F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Micranthocereus aureispinus F.Ritter	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Micranthocereus auri-azureus Buining & Brederoo	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Micranthocereus dolichospermaticus (Buining & Brederoo) F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Micranthocereus estevesii (Buining & Brederoo) F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Micranthocereus flaviflorus Buining & Brederoo	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18	2
Micranthocereus haematocarpus F.Ritter	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Micranthocereus hofackerianus (P.J.Braun & Esteves) M.Machado	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Micranthocereus monteazulensis F.Ritter	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Micranthocereus polyanthus (Werderm.) Backeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Micranthocereus purpureus (Gürke) F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Micranthocereus ruficeps F.Ritter	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Micranthocereus streckeri Van Heek & Van Criek.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Micranthocereus violaciflorus Buining	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 23 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Micranthocereus. Of these 10 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 3 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Micranthocereus. 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 23 species names for the genus Micranthocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	10	43.5%
◕	Synonym	5	21.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	8	34.8%

All names

The status of the 26 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Micranthocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	12	46.2%
◕	Synonym	6	23.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	8	30.8%

Of the species names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 23 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Micranthocereus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	8	5	0	0	13	56.5%
	Low confidence	2	0	0	8	10	43.5%

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