Polytrichaceae

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

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Genera in Polytrichaceae

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A list of all accepted names in Polytrichaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Polytrichaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 27 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 1,384 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Polytrichaceae. Of these 315 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 356 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Polytrichaceae. 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 1,384 species names for the family Polytrichaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	315	22.8%
◕	Synonym	812	58.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	257	18.6%

All names

The status of the 1,740 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Polytrichaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	389	22.4%
◕	Synonym	1,041	59.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	310	17.8%

The confidence with which the status of the 1,384 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Polytrichaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	0	0	0	0%
Medium confidence	310	804	0	1,114	80.5%
Low confidence	5	8	257	270	19.5%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	315	812	0	257	0	1,384	100%