diff --git a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_flatten_op.py b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_flatten_op.py
index 7753f2d90ee66e150eb120a2f62f185d4bb24d2e..f1f049c588a27af02ff4090781da9f0dfd5d300d 100644
--- a/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_flatten_op.py
+++ b/python/paddle/fluid/tests/unittests/test_flatten_op.py
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ import unittest
 import numpy as np
 from op_test import OpTest
 
+import paddle
+
 
 class TestFlattenOp(OpTest):
     def setUp(self):
@@ -64,5 +66,31 @@ class TestFlattenOpSixDims(TestFlattenOp):
         self.new_shape = (36, 16)
 
 
+class TestFlattenOpFP16(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_fp16_with_gpu(self):
+        if paddle.fluid.core.is_compiled_with_cuda():
+            place = paddle.CUDAPlace(0)
+            with paddle.static.program_guard(
+                paddle.static.Program(), paddle.static.Program()
+            ):
+                input = np.random.random([12, 14]).astype("float16")
+                x = paddle.static.data(
+                    name="x", shape=[12, 14], dtype="float16"
+                )
+
+                y = paddle.flatten(x)
+
+                exe = paddle.static.Executor(place)
+                res = exe.run(
+                    paddle.static.default_main_program(),
+                    feed={
+                        "x": input,
+                    },
+                    fetch_list=[y],
+                )
+
+                assert np.array_equal(res[0].shape, [12 * 14])
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()
diff --git a/python/paddle/tensor/manipulation.py b/python/paddle/tensor/manipulation.py
index 8f257725e89bed55b991dd0674b520326a6a732e..7d82a83e2a0a9a0aaeb59750e133a549d2397c4b 100644
--- a/python/paddle/tensor/manipulation.py
+++ b/python/paddle/tensor/manipulation.py
@@ -1510,7 +1510,7 @@ def flatten(x, start_axis=0, stop_axis=-1, name=None):
             Out.shape = (3 * 100 * 100 * 4)
 
     Args:
-        x (Tensor): A tensor of number of dimentions >= axis. A tensor with data type float32,
+        x (Tensor): A tensor of number of dimentions >= axis. A tensor with data type float16, float32,
                       float64, int8, int32, int64, uint8.
         start_axis (int): the start axis to flatten
         stop_axis (int): the stop axis to flatten