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The genus Polytrichastrum is in the family Polytrichaceae in the major group Bryophytes (Mosses and liverworts).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Polytrichastrum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Polytrichastrum alpiniforme (Cardot) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Polytrichastrum alpinum (Hedw.) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18	3
Polytrichastrum altaicum Ignatov & G.L. Merr.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Polytrichastrum appalachianum (L.E. Anderson) G.L. Merr.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Polytrichastrum emodi G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Polytrichastrum formosum (Hedw.) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18	2
Polytrichastrum longisetum (Sw. ex Brid.) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18	1
Polytrichastrum norwegicum (Hedw.) Schljakov	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Polytrichastrum ohioense (Renauld & Cardot) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Polytrichastrum pallidisetum (Funck) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Polytrichastrum papillatum G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Polytrichastrum sexangulare (Flörke ex Brid.) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18	1
Polytrichastrum sphaerothecium (Besch.) J.-P. Frahm	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Polytrichastrum tenellum (Müll. Hal.) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Polytrichastrum torquatum Mitt. ex Osada & G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Polytrichastrum xanthopilum (Wilson ex Mitt.) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18

Statistics

The Plant List includes 60 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Polytrichastrum. Of these 16 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 25 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Polytrichastrum. 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 60 species names for the genus Polytrichastrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	26.7%
◕	Synonym	44	73.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 85 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Polytrichastrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	23	27.1%
◕	Synonym	62	72.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

The confidence with which the status of the 60 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Polytrichastrum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	16	44	0	0	60	100%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Polytrichastrum is as follows: