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|accepted_name=Vittaria graminifolia
|accepted_authority=Kaulfuss
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum. Filic.
|place=192. 1824
|year=1824
}}
|common_names=Grass fern
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Vittaria filifolia
|authority=Fée
|rank=species
|publication_title=Mém. Foug.
|publication_place=3: 20. 1852
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Vittariaceae;Vittaria;Vittaria graminifolia
|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 graminifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>epiphytic. <b>Sporophytes</b> absent in flora. <b>Gametophytes</b> much branched. <b>Gemmae</b> tapering at ends, end cells not swollen; body cells 4, rhizoid primordia on each end cell.</span><!--

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|habitat=Epiphytic in dark, moist hollows formed by flaring root buttresses of beech (Fagus grandifolia Ehrhart)
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=La.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Louisiana plants, known only from St. Helena Parish, are identical to gametophytes grown from sporophyte plants from Central America both morphologically and in starch gel enzyme electrophoresis patterns. Gametophyte colonies and possibly sporophytes of <i>Vittaria graminifolia</i> should be expected in similar habitats at additional sites along the Gulf Coast and in peninsular Florida. Sporophytes of <i>V. graminifolia</i> differ from those of <i>V. lineata</i> in having trilete spores, dilated terminal cells of the soral paraphyses, stem scales with acute (not long filiform) apices, and a chromosome number of 2n = 60. Earlier reports of sporophytes of <i>V. graminifolia</i> in Florida (as V. filifolia) have been shown to refer to aberrant forms of <i>V. lineata</i> (G. J. Gastony 1980).</p>
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name=Vittaria graminifolia
|authority=Kaulfuss
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Vittaria filifolia
|family=Vittariaceae
|habitat=Epiphytic in dark, moist hollows formed by flaring root buttresses of beech (Fagus grandifolia Ehrhart)
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=La.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Enum. Filic.
|publication year=1824
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Vittaria
|species=Vittaria graminifolia
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