The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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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 and unassessed names in Sphagnaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Sphagnaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 3 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 745 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Sphagnaceae. Of these 384 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 665 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 745 species names for the family Sphagnaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
◕ Accepted 384 51.5%
◕ Synonym 333 44.7%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 28 3.8%

All names

The status of the 1,410 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Sphagnaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
◕ Accepted 528 37.4%
◕ Synonym 777 55.1%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 105 7.4%

The confidence with which the status of the 745 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 383 331 0 0 714 95.8%
Low confidence 1 2 0 28 31 4.2%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 384 333 0 28 0 745 100%