The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Pottiaceae

The family Pottiaceae is in the major group Bryophytes (Mosses and liverworts).

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Pottiaceae

A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Pottiaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Pottiaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 138 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 5,311 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Pottiaceae. Of these 3,223 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 767 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Pottiaceae. 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 5,311 species names for the family Pottiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 3,223 60.7%
Synonym 1,931 36.4%
Unplaced 4 0.1%
Unassessed 153 2.9%

All names

The status of the 6,078 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Pottiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 3,461 56.9%
Synonym 2,367 38.9%
Unplaced 4 0.1%
Unassessed 246 4.0%

The confidence with which the status of the 5,311 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Pottiaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 3,223 1,930 0 0 5,153 97.0%
Low confidence 0 1 4 153 158 3.0%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 3,223 1,931 0 149 0 5,303 99.8%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 4 4 0 8 0.2%