⚠ Version 1.1 of The Plant List has been superseded and should no longer be used.

The new version is available at http://www.worldfloraonline.org. The new version is enhanced, using more data sources including Taxonomic Expert Networks and will be more frequently updated.

The genus Pteridium is in the family Dennstaedtiaceae in the major group Pteridophytes (Ferns and fern allies).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pteridium

• Jump to species starting with:
• A
• B
• C
• E
• F
• H
• L
• P
• R
• S
• T
• Y

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18	6
Pteridium arachnoideum (Kaulf.) Maxon	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pteridium brownseyi Fraser-Jenk.	Unresolved		IPNI
Pteridium campestris Schrad.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Pteridium capense Krasser	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Pteridium caudatum (L.) Maxon	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pteridium ceheginense Joaquin	Unresolved		IPNI
Pteridium centrali-africanum (Hieron.) Alston	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pteridium esculentum (G. Forst.) Cockayne	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pteridium falcatum Ching ex S.H. Wu	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pteridium feei (W. Schaffn. ex Fée) Faull	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pteridium heredia Joaquin	Unresolved		IPNI
Pteridium lanuginosum Clute	Unresolved		IPNI
Pteridium lineare Ching ex S.H. Wu	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pteridium psittacinum Maxon	Unresolved		IPNI
Pteridium revolutum (Blume) Nakai	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pteridium semihastatum S.B.Andrews	Unresolved		IPNI
Pteridium tauricum V.I. Krecz.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pteridium yarrabense Wakef.	Unresolved		IPNI
Pteridium yarrabense N.A.Wakef.	Unresolved		IPNI
Pteridium yunnanense Ching & S.H. Wu	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18

Statistics

The Plant List includes 36 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pteridium. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 30 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pteridium. 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 36 species names for the genus Pteridium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	30.6%
◕	Synonym	15	41.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	10	27.8%

All names

The status of the 66 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pteridium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	17	25.8%
◕	Synonym	39	59.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	10	15.2%

The confidence with which the status of the 36 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pteridium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	11	15	0	0	26	72.2%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	10	10	27.8%

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