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The genus Orthothecium is in the family Hypnaceae in the major group Bryophytes (Mosses and liverworts).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Orthothecium

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Orthothecium bollei (De Not.) A. Jaeger	Accepted		TRO
Orthothecium diminutivum (Grout) H.A. Crum, Steere & L.E. Anderson	Accepted		TRO
Orthothecium intricatum (Hartm.) Schimp.	Accepted		TRO
Orthothecium irroratum (Müll. Hal.) Wijk & Margad.	Accepted		TRO
Orthothecium ovicarpum (Dixon) W.R. Buck	Accepted		TRO
Orthothecium rufescens (Dicks. ex Brid.) Schimp.	Accepted		TRO
Orthothecium schlagintweitii (Sendtn. ex Müll. Hal.) Paris	Accepted		TRO
Orthothecium strictum Lorentz	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 25 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Orthothecium. Of these 8 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 9 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Orthothecium. 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 25 species names for the genus Orthothecium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	8	32.0%
◕	Synonym	6	24.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	11	44.0%

All names

The status of the 34 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Orthothecium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	32.4%
◕	Synonym	10	29.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	13	38.2%

The confidence with which the status of the 25 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Orthothecium, 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	56.0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	11	11	44.0%

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