Pteridaceae

The family Pteridaceae is in the major group Pteridophytes (Ferns and fern allies).

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Genera in Pteridaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Pteridaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 23 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 1,450 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Pteridaceae. Of these 232 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 99 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Pteridaceae. 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 1,450 species names for the family Pteridaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	232	16.0%
◕	Synonym	302	20.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	916	63.2%

All names

The status of the 1,549 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Pteridaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	257	16.6%
◕	Synonym	368	23.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	924	59.7%

The confidence with which the status of the 1,450 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Pteridaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	0	0	0	0%
Medium confidence	232	297	0	529	36.5%
Low confidence	0	5	916	921	63.5%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
IPNI	0	0	0	702	0	702	48.4%
Tropicos	232	302	0	214	0	748	51.6%