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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Discocactus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Discocactus bahiensis Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Discocactus ferricola Buining & Brederoo	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Discocactus heptacanthus (Barb.Rodr.) Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Discocactus horstii Buining & Brederoo	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Discocactus placentiformis (Lehm.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Discocactus pseudoinsignis N.P.Taylor & Zappi	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Discocactus zehntneri Britton & Rose	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 60 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Discocactus. Of these 7 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 41 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Discocactus. 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 60 species names for the genus Discocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	7	11.7%
◕	Synonym	50	83.3%
◕	Unplaced	1	1.7%
◕	Unassessed	2	3.3%

All names

The status of the 101 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Discocactus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	10	9.9%
◕	Synonym	88	87.1%
◕	Unplaced	1	1.0%
◕	Unassessed	2	2.0%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 4 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 60 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Discocactus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	6	22	0	0	28	46.7%
	Low confidence	1	28	1	2	32	53.3%

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