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Adiantaceae

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Pteridophyta

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Vittaria

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Vittaria flexuosa, Antrophyum, Trichomanes, Pityrogramma, Hymenophyllum

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Vittaria, the shoestring ferns, is a genus of ferns in the Vittarioideae subfamily of the family Pteridaceae. It had previously been placed in the family Vittariaceae, but that family is no longer recognized.

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Vittaria Vittaria lineata Pteridaceae image 6659 at PlantSystematicsorg

Vittaria consists of epiphytes, with simple, entire, narrowly linear fronds. It comprises six species, five of which are native to the neotropics. Vittaria isoetifolia is native to tropical Africa and islands of the southwestern Indian Ocean. Vittaria isoetifolia and Vittaria lineata are known, albeit rarely, in cultivation.

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Vittaria was named by James Edward Smith in 1793 in Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences (Turin). The generic name is derived from the Latin, vitta, meaning "a band or ribbon".

Vittaria Vittaria graminifolia Pteridaceae image 23201 at FossilFlowersorg

In 1990, Vittaria was defined broadly and estimated to have between 50 and 80 species. The genus is difficult to divide into species, and many of the species are only doubtfully distinct. In a 1997 revision of the vittarioid ferns, only 34 species were recognized in Vittaria sensu lato. Twenty of these were transferred to Haplopteris and eight to Radiovittaria, leaving only six in Vittaria.

Vittaria Vittaria graminifolia Pteridaceae image 33627 at PlantSystematicsorg

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Species

Vittaria includes the following species:

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  • Vittaria appalachiana Farrar & Mickel 1991
  • Vittaria dimorpha Müll.Berol. 1854 (= V. bradeorum Rosenst. 1925)
  • Vittaria flavicosta Mickel & Beitel 1988
  • Vittaria graminifolia Kaulf. 1824
  • Vittaria isoetifolia Bory 1804
  • Vittaria lineata (L.) Sm. 1793
  • Vittaria scabrida Klotzsch ex Fée 1851 (doubtfully distinct from V. graminifolia)
  • Transferred to Haplopteris

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  • Vittaria anguste-elongata Hayata
  • Vittaria angustifolia Blume
  • Vittaria doniana Mettenius ex Hieron.
  • Vittaria elongata Sw.
  • Vittaria ensiformis Sw.
  • Vittaria flexuosa Fée
  • Vittaria forrestiana Ching
  • Vittaria fudzinoi Makino
  • Vittaria guineensis Desvaux
  • Vittaria hainanensis C. Chr. ex Ching
  • Vittaria himalayensis Ching
  • Vittaria longicoma Christ
  • Vittaria malayensis Holttum
  • Vittaria modesta Handel-Mazzetti
  • Vittaria owariensis Fée
  • Vittaria scolopendrina (Bory) Schkuhr ex Thwaites
  • Vittaria sikkimensis Kuhn
  • Vittaria taeniophylla Copeland
  • Vittaria volkensii Hieronymus
  • Vittaria zosterifolia Willdenow
  • Transferred to Radiovittaria

  • Vittaria remota Fée
  • Vittaria gardneriana Fée
  • Vittaria latifolia Benedict
  • Vittaria minima (Baker) Benedict
  • Vittaria moritziana Mettenius
  • Vittaria ruiziana Fée
  • Vittaria stipitata Kunze
  • Vittaria williamsii Benedict

  • Vittaria Vittaria graminifolia Pteridaceae image 3012 at PlantSystematicsorg

    Vittaria Vittaria lineata FloraSBS

    References

    Vittaria Wikipedia