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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Tortella

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Tortella afrocespitosa (Müll. Hal.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella alpicola Dixon	Accepted		TRO
Tortella aprica (Müll. Hal.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella beccarii (Venturi) Paris	Accepted		TRO
Tortella brachydontia (Bruch) C.E.O. Jensen	Accepted		TRO
Tortella brotheri (Lindb. ex Broth.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella cirrifolia (Mitt.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella contortifolia (Mitt.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella crispa (Hedw.) C.E.O. Jensen	Accepted		TRO
Tortella crispula (Bruch) C.E.O. Jensen	Accepted		TRO
Tortella cryptocarpa (Broth.) R.H. Zander	Accepted		TRO
Tortella eckendorffii (P. de la Varde) R.H. Zander	Accepted		TRO
Tortella eutrichostomum (Müll. Hal.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella flavovirens (Bruch) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella fleischeri (E. Bauer) J.J. Amann	Accepted		TRO
Tortella fragilifolia (Jur.) G. Roth	Accepted		TRO
Tortella fragilis (Hook. & Wilson) Limpr.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella fristedtii (Müll. Hal.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella fruchartii (Müll. Hal.) R.H. Zander	Accepted		TRO
Tortella germainii (Müll. Hal.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella goniospora (Müll. Hal.) R.H. Zander	Accepted		TRO
Tortella himantina (Besch.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella humilis (Hedw.) Jenn.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella inclinata (R. Hedw.) Limpr.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella inflexa (Bruch) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella japonica (Besch.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella jugicola (Duby) Paris	Accepted		TRO
Tortella knightii (Mitt.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella lilliputana (Müll. Hal. ex G. Roth) R.H. Zander	Accepted		TRO
Tortella limbata (Schiffner) Geh. & Herzog	Accepted		TRO
Tortella linearis (Sw. ex F. Weber & D. Mohr) R.H. Zander	Accepted		TRO
Tortella multicapsularis (Sm.) C.E.O. Jensen	Accepted		TRO
Tortella nano-tortuosa (Müll. Hal.) Watts & Whitel.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella natalensicespitosa (Müll. Hal.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella nitida (Lindb.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella pallido-viridis (Müll. Hal.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella pseudocaespitosa (Müll. Hal.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella rubripes (Mitt.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella rutilans (Hedw.) C.E.O. Jensen	Accepted		TRO
Tortella somaliae (Müll. Hal.) R.H. Zander	Accepted		TRO
Tortella spinidens (G. Roth ex Zodda) Levier & G. Roth	Accepted		TRO
Tortella torquescens (Schimp. ex Müll. Hal.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella tortuloides (Sull. & Lesq.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella tortuosa (Hedw.) Limpr.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella vernicosa (Renauld & Cardot) Broth.	Accepted		TRO
Tortella walkeri (Broth.) R.H. Zander	Accepted		TRO
Tortella xanthocarpa (Schimp. ex Müll. Hal.) Broth.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 119 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Tortella. Of these 47 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 40 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Tortella. 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 119 species names for the genus Tortella recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	47	39.5%
◕	Synonym	44	37.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	28	23.5%

All names

The status of the 159 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Tortella recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	77	48.4%
◕	Synonym	54	34.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	28	17.6%

The confidence with which the status of the 119 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Tortella, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	47	44	0	0	91	76.5%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	28	28	23.5%

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