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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Polytrichum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Polytrichum abbreviatum (Mitt.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum aequinoctiale (Lorentz) Müll. Hal.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum akitense (Besch.) Müll. Hal.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum arcuatum (Mitt.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum asperrimum (Besch.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum bescherellei (Hampe) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum brachythecium (Besch.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum circinatum (Besch.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum commune Hedw.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum cubense (Sull.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum cuspidatum (Besch.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum ericaefolium (Besch.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum feae (Müll. Hal.) Müll. Hal.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum flexicaule (Mitt.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum glaciale (Mitt.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum gracilifolium (Besch.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum gymnophyllum (Mitt.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum helveticum (Lam. & DC.) Schleich. ex Sw.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum hexagonum (Mitt.) Müll. Hal.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum himalayanum (Mitt.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum hyperboreum R. Br.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum japonicum (Sull. & Lesq.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum jensenii I. Hagen	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum juniperinum Hedw.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum leptocarpum (Besch.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum longidens (Ångström) Ångström	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum manchuricum (Horik.) C. Gao & G.C. Zhang	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum neocaledonicum (Besch.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum novae-hollandiae A. Jaeger	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum obscuratum (Mitt.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum otaruense (Besch.) Müll. Hal.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum patulum Harv.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum paucidens (Besch.) Müll. Hal.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum pleeanum (Besch.) Müll. Hal.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum proliferum Griff.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum rhopalophorum (Besch.) Müll. Hal.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum riedelianum Mont.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum robustiusculum (A. Jaeger) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum rottense (A. Schlick.) Weyland	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum schlumbergeri (Schimp.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum seminudum (Mitt.) Wilson ex Hampe	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum spinulosum (Mitt.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum strictum Menzies ex Brid.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum subbifarium (Mitt.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum subcarinatum Hampe	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum subpilosum P. Beauv.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum swartzii Hartm.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum tahitense (Schimp.) Müll. Hal.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum torquatum (Mitt. ex Osada & G.L. Sm.) N. Bell & Hyvönen	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum viride (Mitt.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum vitiense (Mitt.) Kindb.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichum yunnanense (Besch.) Müll. Hal.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 518 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Polytrichum. Of these 52 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 167 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Polytrichum. 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 518 species names for the genus Polytrichum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	52	10.0%
◕	Synonym	324	62.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	142	27.4%

All names

The status of the 685 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Polytrichum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	68	9.9%
◕	Synonym	444	64.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	173	25.3%

The confidence with which the status of the 518 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Polytrichum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	52	323	0	0	375	72.4%
	Low confidence	0	1	0	142	143	27.6%

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