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|accepted_name=Thelypteris reptans
|accepted_authority=(J. F. Gmelin) C. V. Morton
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fieldiana, Bot.
|place=28: 12. 1951
|year=1951
}}
|common_names=Creeping star-hair fern
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Polypodium reptans
|authority=J. F. Gmelin
|rank=species
|publication_title=Syst. Nat.
|publication_place=2: 1309. 1791
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Dryopteris reptans
|authority=(J. F. Gmelin) C. Christensen
|rank=species
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|name=Goniopteris reptans
|authority=(J. F. Gmelin) C. Presl
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Thelypteridaceae;Thelypteris;Thelypteris subg. Goniopteris;Thelypteris reptans
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Thelypteridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Thelypteris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Thelypteris subg. Goniopteris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Thelypteris reptans]]</div></div>
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>creeping to suberect, 2–3 mm diam. <b>Leaves</b> somewhat dimorphic, evergreen, laxly arching or prostrate, sterile leaves often rooting at attenuate apices or along rachises, mostly (10–)15–55 cm, fertile leaves more erect and with longer petioles, not rooting, with more contracted pinnules. <b>Petiole</b> green, 1–25 cm × 0.5–1 mm, at base sparsely set with brown, lanceolate, stellate-hairy scales. <b>Blade</b> usually 10–30 cm, pinnate in proximal half only or throughout, narrowed distally to pinnatifid apex. <b>Pinnae</b> entire to crenate to shallowly lobed ca. 1/3 of width, 1–2.5(–5) × 0.3–1(–1.5) cm, sometimes subcordate at base; proximal pairs from adjacent segments usually united with excurrent vein or veins free. <b>Indument</b> abaxially of stellate, forked, and needlelike hairs on rachises, costae, veins, and blade tissue; blade tissue adaxially also with stellate hairs. <b>Sori</b> round, medial to supramedial; indusia minute or lacking; sporangia with stellate hairs. <b>2n</b> = 144.</span><!--

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|habitat=Limestone rocks and grottoes, damp woods
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;s Mexico;West Indies;Central America in Guatemala;South America in n Venezuela.
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name=Thelypteris reptans
|authority=(J. F. Gmelin) C. V. Morton
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Dryopteris reptans;Goniopteris reptans
|basionyms=Polypodium reptans
|family=Thelypteridaceae
|habitat=Limestone rocks and grottoes, damp woods
|elevation=0–50 m
|distribution=Fla.;s Mexico;West Indies;Central America in Guatemala;South America in n Venezuela.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fieldiana, Bot.
|publication year=1951
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Thelypteris
|subgenus=Thelypteris subg. Goniopteris
|species=Thelypteris reptans
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