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Hierarchical position of the Genus Ancistrocactus

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Caryophyllidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 144. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Caryophyllanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 144. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Caryophyllales Perleb pub. 1826       Subordo  Cactineae Bessey in C.K. Adams pub. Johnson's Universal Cyclop. 8: 462. 15 Nov 1895.       Familia  Cactaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 310. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Cactus       Genus  Ancistrocactus (K.Schum.) Britton & Rose syn. Sclerocactus Britton & Rose

Named members of the Genus Ancistrocactus

1	Species  scheeri (Salm-Dyck) Britt. & Rose syn. Sclerocactus scheeri
2	Species  tobuschii (W.T. Marsh.) W.T. Marsh. ex Backeberg syn. Sclerocactus brevihamatus ssp. tobuschii
3	Species  uncinatus (Galeottii) L. Benson
	4    Varietas  wrightii (Engelm.) L. Benson syn. Sclerocactus uncinatus var. wrightii

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.