The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Astrophytum

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Astrophytum

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source Date supplied Infra. rec.
Astrophytum asterias (Zucc.) Lem. Accepted M WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Astrophytum caespitosum (Britton & Rose) Halda & Malina Unresolved L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Astrophytum capricorne (A.Dietr.) Britton & Rose Accepted L WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Astrophytum caput-medusae D.R.Hunt Accepted M WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Astrophytum mirum Halda & Panar. Accepted M WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Astrophytum myriostigma Lem. Accepted M WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23
Astrophytum ornatum (DC.) Britton & Rose Accepted M WCSP (in review) 2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 33 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Astrophytum. Of these 6 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 61 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Astrophytum. 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 33 species names for the genus Astrophytum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 6 18.2%
Synonym 25 75.8%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 2 6.1%

All names

The status of the 94 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Astrophytum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 6 6.4%
Synonym 86 91.5%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 2 2.1%

Of the species names,

The confidence with which the status of the 33 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Astrophytum, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 5 18 0 0 23 69.7%
Low confidence 1 7 0 2 10 30.3%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 4 0 0 0 4 12.1%
WCSP (in review) 6 21 0 2 0 29 87.9%