Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Marchantiophyta Stotler et Crand. Stotl. in A.J. Shaw et B. Goffinet - liverworts |
| class | Jungermanniopsida Stotler et Crand.-Stotl. |
| subclass | Jungermanniidae Engl. |
| order | Jungermanniales H. Klinggr. |
| suborder | Lophocoleineae Schljakov |
| family | Lophocoleaceae Vanden Berghen in Robyns |
| genus | Chiloscyphus Corda |
| species | Chiloscyphus polyanthos (L.) Corda - St Winifrid's Moss |
| varietas | Chiloscyphus polyanthos var. polyanthos |