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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
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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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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>epiphytic. <b>Stems</b> short-creeping, branched, 2–4 mm diam., not whitish pruinose; scales bicolored, lanceolate, somewhat clathrate, margins dentate. <b>Leaves</b> essentially monomorphic, tufted, narrowed toward apex, to 45 cm. <b>Petiole</b> articulate to stem, greenish, round in cross section, grooved at base. <b>Blade</b> linear to lanceolate-elliptic, simple, not glaucous, glabrous, margins entire. <b>Veins</b> obscure, in irregular areoles that are generally longer than wide and parallel to costa, included veinlets 1–2, simple or forked, free. <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; indument filamentous. <b>Spores</b> minutely tuberculate. <b>x</b> = 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
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|genus=Neurodium
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