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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Sphaerostephanos

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Sphaerostephanos arbuscula (Willd.) Holttum	Accepted		TRO
Sphaerostephanos hirtisorus (C. Chr.) Holttum	Accepted		TRO
Sphaerostephanos unitus (L.) Holttum	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 191 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sphaerostephanos. Of these 3 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Sphaerostephanos. 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 191 species names for the genus Sphaerostephanos recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3	1.6%
◕	Synonym	4	2.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	184	96.3%

All names

The status of the 192 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sphaerostephanos recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3	1.6%
◕	Synonym	4	2.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	185	96.4%

The confidence with which the status of the 191 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Sphaerostephanos, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	3	4	0	0	7	3.7%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	184	184	96.3%

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