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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pereskia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Pereskia acardia Parm. ex Pfeiff.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia aculeata Mill.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia affinis Meinsh.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia arcadia J. Parm.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Pereskia aureiflora F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pereskia bahiensis Gürke	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pereskia bleo (Kunth) DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia braziliensis Pfeiff.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Pereskia calandriniaefolia hort. ex C.F. Först.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Pereskia calandriniifolia Salm-Dyck	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia crassicaulis Zucc. ex Pfeiff.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia diazromeroana Cárdenas	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pereskia glomerata Pfeiff.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia grandiflora Pfeiff.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pereskia grandifolia Haw.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia grandispina J.Forbes	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia guamacho F.A.C.Weber	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia haageana Meinsh.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia higuerana Cárdenas	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pereskia horrida DC.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pereskia hortensis Voss	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia kellermanii Rose	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Pereskia lanceolata Salm-Dyck	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia lanceolata C.F.Först.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia longissima Voss	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia lychnidiflora DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia marcanoi Areces	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia nemorosa Rojas Acosta	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pereskia plantaginea Pfeiff.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pereskia portulacifolia (L.) DC.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pereskia quisqueyana A. H. Liogier	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pereskia rufida hort.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Pereskia sacharosa Griseb.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pereskia stenantha F. Ritter	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pereskia weberiana K. Schum.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pereskia zinniiflora DC.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18

Statistics

The Plant List includes 92 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pereskia. Of these 18 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 12 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pereskia. 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 92 species names for the genus Pereskia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	18	19.6%
◕	Synonym	54	58.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	20	21.7%

All names

The status of the 104 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pereskia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	18	17.3%
◕	Synonym	66	63.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	20	19.2%

Of the species names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 92 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pereskia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	17	53	0	0	70	76.1%
	Low confidence	1	1	0	20	22	23.9%

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