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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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.

Equisetaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Equisetaceae

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

Statistics

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

The Plant List includes 74 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Equisetaceae. Of these 25 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 40 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Equisetaceae. 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 74 species names for the family Equisetaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 25 33.8%
Synonym 30 40.5%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 19 25.7%

All names

The status of the 114 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Equisetaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 32 28.1%
Synonym 61 53.5%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 21 18.4%

The confidence with which the status of the 74 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Equisetaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 25 30 0 0 55 74.3%
Low confidence 0 0 0 19 19 25.7%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 25 30 0 19 0 74 100%