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The genus Polytaenium is in the family Vittariaceae in the major group Pteridophytes (Ferns and fern allies).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Polytaenium

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Polytaenium brasilianum (Desv.) Benedict	Accepted		TRO
Polytaenium cajenense (Desv.) Benedict	Accepted		TRO
Polytaenium chlorosporum (Mickel & Beitel) E.H. Crane	Accepted		TRO
Polytaenium elongatum (Cav.) Pic.Serm.	Accepted		TRO
Polytaenium feei (W. Schaffn. ex Fée) Maxon	Accepted		TRO
Polytaenium guayanense (Hieron.) Alston	Accepted		TRO
Polytaenium lineatum (Sw.) J. Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Polytaenium urbanii (Brause) Alain	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 20 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Polytaenium. Of these 8 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Polytaenium. 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 20 species names for the genus Polytaenium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	8	40.0%
◕	Synonym	6	30.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	6	30.0%

All names

The status of the 21 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Polytaenium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	8	38.1%
◕	Synonym	7	33.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	6	28.6%

The confidence with which the status of the 20 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Polytaenium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	8	6	0	0	14	70.0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	6	6	30.0%

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