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|accepted_name=Neurodium
|accepted_authority=Fée
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|place=4: 201. 1850
|year=1850
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|common_names=Ribbon ferns
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Paltonium
|authority=C. Presl
|rank=genus
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|hierarchy=Polypodiaceae;Neurodium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polypodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Neurodium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek neuron, nerve, and -ium, resemblance; veinlets are embossed
|volume=Volume 2
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism habitat;whole_organism growth form"><b>Plants </b>epiphytic.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem growth form or orientation;stem architecture;stem diameter;stem coloration;stem coating"><b>Stems </b>short-creeping, branched, 2–4 mm diam., not whitish pruinose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="scale coloration;scale shape;scale architecture;margin architecture or shape">scales bicolored, lanceolate, somewhat clathrate, margins dentate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf architecture;leaf arrangement or pubescence;leaf shape;leaf some measurement"><b>Leaves </b>essentially monomorphic, tufted, narrowed toward apex, to 45 cm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="petiole architecture;petiole coloration;petiole shape;petiole architecture"><b>Petiole </b>articulate to stem, greenish, round in cross-section, grooved at base.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="blade arrangement;blade architecture;blade pubescence;blade pubescence;margin architecture or shape"><b>Blade </b>linear to lanceolate-elliptic, simple, not glaucous, glabrous, margins entire.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="vein prominence;vein arrangement;vein quantity;vein architecture;vein shape;vein fusion;areole architecture or course;areole length or size"><b>Veins </b>obscure, in irregular areoles that generally longer than wide and parallel to costa, included veinlets 1–2, simple or forked, free.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="band architecture;band position;sorus quantity;sorus shape;sorus shape"><b>Sori </b>in nearly continuous, nearly marginal band (coenosorus) in distal 1/2 of blade, sometimes also with 1–3 separate oblong to circular sori proximally;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="indument texture">indument filamentous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties=""><b>Spores </b>minutely tuberculate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="spore relief;x chromosome quantity">x = 37.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tropical;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America
|discussion=<p>Species 1 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Neurodium
|author=Clifton E. Nauman
|authority=Fée
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Paltonium
|basionyms=
|family=Polypodiaceae
|distribution=Tropical;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=1850
|special status=
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|genus=Neurodium
|areole architecture or course=irregular
|areole length or size=generally longer than wide
|band architecture=continuous
|band position=marginal
|blade architecture=simple
|blade arrangement=linear;lanceolate-elliptic
|blade pubescence=glabrous;not glaucous
|indument texture=filamentous
|leaf architecture=monomorphic
|leaf arrangement or pubescence=tufted
|leaf shape=narrowed
|leaf some measurement=0cm;45cm
|margin architecture or shape=entire;dentate
|petiole architecture=grooved;articulate
|petiole coloration=greenish
|petiole shape=round
|scale architecture=clathrate
|scale coloration=bicolored
|scale shape=lanceolate
|sorus quantity=1;3
|sorus shape=oblong;circular
|spore relief=tuberculate
|stem architecture=branched
|stem coating=pruinose
|stem coloration=not whitish
|stem diameter=2mm;4mm
|stem growth form or orientation=short-creeping
|vein architecture=simple
|vein arrangement=parallel
|vein fusion=free
|vein prominence=obscure
|vein quantity=1;2
|vein shape=forked
|whole_organism growth form=plant
|whole_organism habitat=epiphytic
|x chromosome quantity=37
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