The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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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 Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 232 297 0 0 529 36.5%
Low confidence 0 5 0 916 921 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%