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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Lophocereus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Lophocereus bahiensis Orcutt	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Lophocereus gatesii M.E. Jones	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Lophocereus glaziovii Orcutt	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Lophocereus melanurus Orcutt	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Lophocereus mieckleyanus Weing. ex Backeb. & F.M.Knuth	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Lophocereus schottii (Engelm.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 18 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Lophocereus. Of these 2 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 17 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Lophocereus. 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 18 species names for the genus Lophocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	11.1%
◕	Synonym	10	55.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	6	33.3%

All names

The status of the 35 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Lophocereus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	5.7%
◕	Synonym	27	77.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	6	17.1%

The confidence with which the status of the 18 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Lophocereus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	2	10	0	0	12	66.7%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	6	6	33.3%

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