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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

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn	Accepted		TRO
Pteridium arachnoideum (Kaulf.) Maxon	Accepted		TRO
Pteridium caudatum (L.) Maxon	Accepted		TRO
Pteridium centrali-africanum (Hieron.) Alston	Accepted		TRO
Pteridium esculentum (G. Forst.) Nakai	Accepted		TRO
Pteridium falcatum Ching ex S.H. Wu	Accepted		TRO
Pteridium feei (W. Schaffn. ex Fée) Faull	Accepted		TRO
Pteridium lineare Ching ex S.H. Wu	Accepted		TRO
Pteridium revolutum (Blume) Nakai	Accepted		TRO
Pteridium tauricum V.I. Krecz.	Accepted		TRO
Pteridium yunnanense Ching & S.H. Wu	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 23 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pteridium. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 28 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 23 species names for the genus Pteridium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	47.8%
◕	Synonym	4	17.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	8	34.8%

All names

The status of the 51 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pteridium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	19	37.3%
◕	Synonym	24	47.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	8	15.7%

The confidence with which the status of the 23 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	4	0	0	15	65.2%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	8	8	34.8%

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