The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Sphagnaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Sphagnaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Sphagnaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 1 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 902 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Sphagnaceae. Of these 120 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 931 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Sphagnaceae. 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 902 species names for the family Sphagnaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 120 13.3%
Synonym 460 51.0%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 322 35.7%

All names

The status of the 1,833 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Sphagnaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 306 16.7%
Synonym 1,070 58.4%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 457 24.9%

The confidence with which the status of the 902 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Sphagnaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 120 459 0 0 579 64.2%
Low confidence 0 1 0 322 323 35.8%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 120 460 0 322 0 902 100%