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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Echinocereus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Echinocereus adustus Engelm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus apachensis W.Blum & Rutow	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus barthelowanus Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus berlandieri (Engelm.) J.N.Haage	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus brandegeei (J.M.Coult.) Schelle	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus bristolii W.T.Marshall	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus chisoensis W.T.Marshall	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus chloranthus (Engelm.) J.N.Haage	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus cinerascens (DC.) Lem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus coccineus Engelm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus dasyacanthus Engelm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus delaetii (Gürke) Gürke	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus engelmannii (Parry ex Engelm.) Lem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus enneacanthus Engelm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus fasciculatus (Engelm. ex B.D.Jacks.) L.D.Benson	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus fendleri (Engelm.) Rümpler	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus ferreirianus H.E.Gates	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus flaviflorus (Engelm. ex J.M. Coult.) Hildemann in Schumann	Accepted		TRO
Echinocereus grandis Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus klapperi W.Blum	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus knippelianus Liebner	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus laui G.Frank	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus leucanthus N.P.Taylor	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus lindsayi Meyran	Accepted		TRO
Echinocereus longisetus (Engelm.) Lem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus mapimiensis E.F.Anderson, W.C.Hodg. & P.Quirk	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus maritimus (M.E.Jones) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus nicholii (L.D.Benson) B.D.Parfitt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus nivosus Glass & R.A.Foster	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus ortegae Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus palmeri Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus pamanesiorum A.B.Lau	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus papillosus Linke ex C.F.Först. & Rümpler	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus parkeri N.P.Taylor	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus pectinatus (Scheidw.) Engelm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus pensilis (Brandegee) J.A.Purpus	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus pentalophus (DC.) Lem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus pleiogonus (Labour.) Croucher	Accepted		TRO
Echinocereus polyacanthus Engelm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus poselgeri Lem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus primolanatus Fritz Schwarz ex N.P.Taylor	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus pseudopectinatus (N.P.Taylor) N.P.Taylor	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus pulchellus (Mart.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus rayonesensis N.P.Taylor	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus reichenbachii (Terscheck) J.N.Haage	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus rigidissimus (Engelm.) F.Haage	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus × roetteri (Engelm.) Engelm. ex Rümpler	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus russanthus D.Weniger	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus scheeri (Salm-Dyck) Scheer	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus schereri G.Frank	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus schmollii (Weing.) N.P.Taylor	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus sciurus (K.Brandegee) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus scopulorum Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus spinigemmatus A.B.Lau	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus stoloniferus W.T.Marshall	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus stramineus (Engelm.) F.Seitz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus subinermis Salm-Dyck ex Scheer	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus triglochidiatus Engelm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus viereckii Werderm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus viridiflorus Engelm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus websterianus G.E.Linds.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echinocereus yavapaiensis M.A.Baker	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 274 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Echinocereus. Of these 62 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 269 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Echinocereus. 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 274 species names for the genus Echinocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	62	22.6%
◕	Synonym	161	58.8%
◕	Unplaced	9	3.3%
◕	Unassessed	42	15.3%

All names

The status of the 543 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Echinocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	117	21.5%
◕	Synonym	372	68.5%
◕	Unplaced	9	1.7%
◕	Unassessed	45	8.3%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 274 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Echinocereus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	57	147	0	0	204	74.5%
	Low confidence	5	14	9	42	70	25.5%

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