The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Polypodiaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Polypodiaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Polypodiaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 89 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 6,047 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Polypodiaceae. Of these 1,162 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 495 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Polypodiaceae. 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 6,047 species names for the family Polypodiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 1,162 19.2%
◕ Synonym 2,367 39.1%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 2,518 41.6%

All names

The status of the 6,542 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Polypodiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 1,212 18.5%
◕ Synonym 2,792 42.7%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 2,538 38.8%

The confidence with which the status of the 6,047 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Polypodiaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 1,159 2,352 0 0 3,511 58.1%
Low confidence 3 15 0 2,518 2,536 41.9%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
IPNI 0 0 0 2,093 0 2,093 34.6%
Tropicos 1,162 2,367 0 425 0 3,954 65.4%