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|accepted_name=Acroporium
|accepted_authority=Mitten
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
|place=10: 182. 1868
|year=1868
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Sematophyllaceae;Acroporium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Sematophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Acroporium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek akros, top, and poros, pore, possibly alluding to tubulose points of branches
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 571, 646
|treatment_page=page 572
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>small, yellowish to golden yellow, glossy. <b>Stems</b> 1[–10] cm, not or weakly complanate-foliate, irregularly to regularly pinnate or sometimes simple. <b>Leaves</b> imbricate or strongly divergent, sometimes somewhat falcate, narrowly to broadly ovate-lanceolate; margins entire; apex acute to acuminate; costa double or ecostate; alar cells elongate, inflated, pigmented, walls thin, region in 1 row, middle lamella not apparent, supra-alar cells not apparently differentiated; laminal cells narrowly rhomboid to linear, smooth or rarely 1-papillose. <b>Sexual</b> condition autoicous [synoicous, dioicous, or phyllodioicous]. <b>Seta</b> 0.4–0.7 cm. <b>Capsule</b> erect to inclined, ovoid to cylindric; exothecial cell walls collenchymatous; operculum conic, finely rostrate.</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia;tropical and subtropical regions;predominantly Indo-Malaysia.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 60 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Acroporium
|author=Wilfred B. Schofield†
|authority=Mitten
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Sematophyllaceae
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia;tropical and subtropical regions;predominantly Indo-Malaysia.
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Linn. Soc., Bot.
|publication year=1868
|special status=
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|genus=Acroporium
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