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|accepted_name=Vittaria lineata
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Smith
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|place=5: 421. 1793
|year=1793
}}
|common_names=Shoestring fern
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Pteris lineata
|authority=Linnaeus
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=2: 1073. 1753
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|hierarchy=Vittariaceae;Vittaria;Vittaria lineata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Vittariaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Vittaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Vittaria lineata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>epiphytic. <b>Stems</b> short-creeping, branched, densely scaly; scales brown, apex attenuate, filiform. <b>Leaves</b> 10–60 cm × 1–3 mm, petioles indistinct. <b>Sporangia</b> protected by soral paraphyses that lack dilated terminal cells. <b>Spores</b> monolete. <b>Gametophytes</b> much branched. <b>Gemmae</b> tapering at ends, end cells not swollen; body cells 4–16, rhizoid primordia on each end cell, often on 1–2 medial cells. <b>2n</b> = 120.</span><!--

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|habitat=Epiphytic, most commonly on trunks of palms (Sabal palmetto Loddiges), in moist woods and especially along streams
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Sporophytes, now extirpated, once occurred on rock cliffs at a single site in Lincoln County, east central Georgia. <i>Vittaria lineata</i> is now known outside of Florida only in Camden County, in southeastern Georgia. Gametophytes commonly form the dominant cover on moist logs and tree trunks, especially the bases of <i>Sabal palmetto</i> palms, within the range of the sporophyte. Such populations usually contain numerous small, sexually produced sporophytes.</p>
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name=Vittaria lineata
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) Smith
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Pteris lineata
|family=Vittariaceae
|habitat=Epiphytic, most commonly on trunks of palms (Sabal palmetto Loddiges), in moist woods and especially along streams
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=1793
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|genus=Vittaria
|species=Vittaria lineata
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