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Vittaria
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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.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassPolypodiopsida
- OrderPolypodiales
- FamilyPteridaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,523
- With media
- 2,184
- Family
- Pteridaceae
- Collections
- INECOL, IBUNAM, BRIT, VT, ANSP, NHA
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Philippines, Colombia, Jamaica, Taiwan, United States, Brazil, Dominican Republic
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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.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vittaria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.