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|accepted_name=Herpetineuron
|accepted_authority=(Müller Hal.) Cardot
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Beih. Bot. Centralbl.
|place=19(2): 127. 1905
|year=1905
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Anomodon sect. Herpetineuron
|authority=Müller Hal.
|publication_title=Flora
|publication_place=73: 496. 1890
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Anomodontaceae;Herpetineuron
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Anomodontaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Herpetineuron]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek herpes, snake, and neuron, nerve, alluding to terminally strongly sinuous costa
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 629, 653
|treatment_page=page 635
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>large, green, dark green, or yellowish brown. <b>Stems</b> with branches arcuate, circinate or often attenuate to flagellate; central strand cells well differentiated, smaller; pseudoparaphyllia absent. <b>Branch</b> leaves incurved, secund when dry, erect, not complanate when moist, ovate-lanceolate, gradually tapered from base to apex, somewhat plicate proximally; margins plane, serrate in distal 1/3–1/4; apex sharply acuminate; costa strong, not obscured by laminal cells, not 2-fid at end, abaxial costa cells smooth; laminal cells rectangular to rhombic, slightly longer than wide, smooth, walls somewhat thickened; distal cells sometimes prorulate. <b>Perichaetial</b> leaves somewhat differentiated. [Seta 1.4–1.6 cm. <b>Capsule</b> slightly asymmetric; stomata few; peristome fairly well developed; exostome teeth yellowish, papillose and faintly striolate at base and beyond; endostome basal membrane to 3 or 4 cells high, segments papillose throughout. <b>Calyptra</b> smooth. <b>Spores</b> 16–22 µm].</span><!--

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|distribution=Nearly worldwide;mostly temperate or montane regions.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=norris1961a
|text=Norris, D. H. and A. J. Sharp. 1961. The known distribution of Herpetineuron toccoae (Sull. & Lesq.) Card. J. Hattori Bot. Lab. 24: 110–114.
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name=Herpetineuron
|author=
|authority=(Müller Hal.) Cardot
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Anomodon sect. Herpetineuron
|family=Anomodontaceae
|distribution=Nearly worldwide;mostly temperate or montane regions.
|reference=norris1961a
|publication title=Beih. Bot. Centralbl.
|publication year=1905
|special status=
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|genus=Herpetineuron
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