Pteridaceae

Stiff shoestring fern

Haplopteris elongata (Sw.) E.H.Crane

Family: Pteridaceae
Genus: Haplopteris

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Stiff shoestring fern (Haplopteris elongata) — LeavesPhoto: chiuluan, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist

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Common names

By language (3)

Chinese: 唇边书带蕨, 唇邊書帶蕨, 双唇书带蕨, 垂叶书带蕨, 长叶书带蕨, 阔叶书带蕨
English: Stiff shoestring fern
Persian: سرخس نواری

Synonyms

Oetosis elongata Greene
Pteris graminifolia Roxb.
Vittaria angustata Alderw.
Vittaria anodontolepis Fée
Vittaria blumei Hieron.
Vittaria bonincola H.Itô
Vittaria boninensis Christ
Vittaria crispomarginata Christ
Vittaria elongata Sw.
Vittaria elongata var. latifolia Holttum
Vittaria elongata var. samoensis Luerss.
Vittaria flaccida Hieron.
Vittaria formosana Nakai
Vittaria hildebrandtii Hieron.
Vittaria hildebrandtii var. major Hieron.
Vittaria intermedia Blume
Vittaria latissima Hieron.
Vittaria ledermannii Hieron.
Vittaria lloydiifolia Racib.
Vittaria nervosa Christ
Vittaria nymanii Hieron.
Vittaria pachystemma Christ
Vittaria parvula Bory
Vittaria pauciareolata Ching
Vittaria philippinensis Christ
Vittaria plantaginea Hook. & Grev.
Vittaria rigida Kaulf.
Vittaria rigida var. samoensis (Luerss.) C.Chr.
Vittaria rubens Hieron.
Vittaria scabricoma Copel.
Vittaria semipellucida Hieron.
Vittaria squamosipes Alderw.
Vittaria stuhlmannii Hieron.
Vittaria subcoriacea Christ
Vittaria tortifrons Hayata

Photos

LeavesPhoto: chiuluan, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
Photo: Poyt448, Peter Woodard, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Kiwi Shen, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
Photo: 鄭雪雲, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
Photo: 葉子, CC0, from iNaturalist
Photo: 曾昱承 Yu-Cheng Zeng, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.