The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Cactaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Cactaceae

A list of all accepted names in Cactaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Cactaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 174 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 12,946 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Cactaceae. Of these 2,047 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 3,376 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Cactaceae. 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 12,946 species names for the family Cactaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2,047 15.8%
Synonym 5,389 41.6%
Unplaced 401 3.1%
Unassessed 5,109 39.5%

All names

The status of the 16,322 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Cactaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2,610 16.0%
Synonym 7,835 48.0%
Unplaced 401 2.5%
Unassessed 5,476 33.5%

Of these names,

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 12,946 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Cactaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 1,806 4,201 0 0 6,007 46.4%
Low confidence 241 1,188 401 5,109 6,939 53.6%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the family Cactaceae, are as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 1,074 2,932 0 389 0 4,395 33.9%
WCSP (in review) 973 2,457 401 4,720 1 8,552 66.1%