Biology:Vittaria ensiformis

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Short description: Species of fern

Tape fern
Grass like fern Watagan Hills.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Family: Pteridaceae
Genus: Vittaria
Species:
V. ensiformis
Binomial name
Vittaria ensiformis
Sw.
Synonyms

Haplopteris ensiformis (Sw.) E.H.Crane

Vittaria ensiformis, commonly known as the tape fern, is a species of epiphytic fern. In eastern Australia , it grows in rainforests north from the Watagan Hills in the south, to tropical Queensland and the Northern Territory in the north.[1][2] This plant first appeared in scientific literature in 1799, published by the Swedish botanist Olof Swartz from a plant collected in Mauritius.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q17187440 entry