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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Heliocereus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Heliocereus ackermannii (Lindl.) Doweld	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Heliocereus × capelleanus (Rother) Doweld	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Heliocereus conzattianus (T.M.MacDougal) Doweld	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Heliocereus × jenkinsonii (McIntosh) Doweld	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Heliocereus macdougallii (Alexander) Doweld	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Heliocereus schrankii (Zucc. ex Seitz) Britton & Rose	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18	2
Heliocereus speciosus (Cav.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23	1
Heliocereus × violaceus (Mast.) Doweld	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 23 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Heliocereus. Of these 2 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 73 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Heliocereus. 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 Heliocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	8.7%
◕	Synonym	13	56.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	8	34.8%

All names

The status of the 96 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Heliocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	5.2%
◕	Synonym	83	86.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	8	8.3%

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

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	2	13	0	0	15	65.2%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	8	8	34.8%

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