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|accepted_name=Phlebodium
|accepted_authority=(R. Brown) J. Smith
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Bot. (Hooker)
|place=4: 58. 1841
|year=1841
}}
|common_names=Golden polypodies
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Polypodium sect. Phlebodium
|authority=R. Brown
|rank=section
|publication_title=in J. J. Bennett et al., Pl. Jav. Rar.
|publication_place=1: 4. 1838
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polypodiaceae;Phlebodium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polypodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Phlebodium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek phlebos, vein, referring to the prominent venation
|volume=Volume 2
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>epiphytic. <b>Stems</b> creeping, branched, not whitish pruinose, 8–30 mm diam.; scales concolored, lanceolate, not clathrate, glabrous, margins dentate. <b>Leaves</b> monomorphic, widely spaced, not conspicuously narrowed at tip, to 130 cm. <b>Petiole</b> articulate to stem, dark brown, round in cross section, with 2 adaxial grooves. <b>Blade</b> ovate to elliptic, not pectinate, pinnatisect with broadly winged rachises and rounded sinuses, with fewer than 20 pairs of segments, glaucous, usually glabrous, scales absent; rachis glabrous. <b>Segments</b> linear to lanceolate, margins entire, apex rounded. <b>Veins</b> free near margins, well developed near costae, highly reticulate, usually with 1 row of costal areoles extending from vein to vein without included veinlets, and with a series of elongate, polygonal areoles with 1–3 excurrent included veinlets meeting at apices, and similar areoles closer to margin of segment mostly without included veinlets. <b>Sori</b> on veins, transverse, 2 in each major areole on included veinlets, circular to oblong; indument absent. <b>Spores</b> tuberculate. <b>x</b> = 37.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tropical regions;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 2–4 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Phlebodium
|author=Clifton E. Nauman
|authority=(R. Brown) J. Smith
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Polypodium sect. Phlebodium
|family=Polypodiaceae
|distribution=Tropical regions;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Bot. (Hooker)
|publication year=1841
|special status=
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|genus=Phlebodium
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