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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Oreocereus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Oreocereus australis (F.Ritter) A.E.Hoffm.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Oreocereus celsianus (Lem. ex Salm-Dyck) Riccob.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Oreocereus doelzianus (Backeb.) Borg	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Oreocereus fossulatus (Labour.) Backeb.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Oreocereus hempelianus (Gürke) D.R. Hunt	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Oreocereus hendriksenianus Backeb.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Oreocereus leucotrichus (Phil.) Wagenkn.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Oreocereus piscoensis (Rauh & Backeb.) F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Oreocereus ritteri Cullman	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Oreocereus tacnaensis F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Oreocereus trollii Kupper	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Oreocereus varicolor Backeb.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18

Statistics

The Plant List includes 42 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Oreocereus. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 10 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Oreocereus. 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 42 species names for the genus Oreocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	26.2%
◕	Synonym	21	50.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	10	23.8%

All names

The status of the 52 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Oreocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	21.2%
◕	Synonym	30	57.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	11	21.2%

The confidence with which the status of the 42 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Oreocereus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	9	18	0	0	27	64.3%
	Low confidence	2	3	0	10	15	35.7%

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