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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
Polytrichastrum alpiniforme (Cardot) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichastrum alpinum (Hedw.) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichastrum appalachianum (L.E. Anderson) G.L. Merr.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichastrum formosum (Hedw.) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichastrum longisetum (Sw. ex Brid.) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichastrum norwegicum (Hedw.) Schljakov	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichastrum ohioense (Renauld & Cardot) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichastrum pallidisetum (Funck) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichastrum papillatum G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichastrum sexangulare (Flörke ex Brid.) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichastrum sphaerothecium (Besch.) J.-P. Frahm	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichastrum tenellum (Müll. Hal.) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Polytrichastrum xanthopilum (Wilson ex Mitt.) G.L. Sm.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 18 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Polytrichastrum. Of these 13 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 11 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 18 species names for the genus Polytrichastrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	13	72.2%
◕	Synonym	3	16.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	11.1%

All names

The status of the 29 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Polytrichastrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	23	79.3%
◕	Synonym	4	13.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	6.9%

The confidence with which the status of the 18 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	13	3	0	0	16	88.9%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	2	2	11.1%

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