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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/Synonym
|name=Polypodium sect. Phlebodium
|authority=R. Brown
}}
|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-d0_s0" data-properties="plant habitat"><b>Plants </b>epiphytic.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem growth form or orientation;stem architecture;stem coloration;stem coating;stem diameter"><b>Stems </b>creeping, branched, not whitish pruinose, 8–30 mm diam.;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="scale coloration;scale shape;scale architecture;scale pubescence;margin architecture or shape">scales concolored, lanceolate, not clathrate, glabrous, margins dentate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf architecture;leaf arrangement;leaf shape;leaf some measurement"><b>Leaves </b>monomorphic, widely spaced, not conspicuously narrowed at tip, to 130 cm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="petiole architecture;petiole coloration;petiole shape;adaxial groove count"><b>Petiole </b>articulate to stem, dark-brown, round in cross-section, with 2 adaxial grooves.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;blade architecture or shape;blade pubescence;blade pubescence;rachis architecture;sinuse shape;pair count;scale count"><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;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="rachis pubescence">rachis glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="segment shape;segment shape;segment shape;margin architecture or shape;apex shape"><b>Segments </b>linear to lanceolate, margins entire, apex rounded.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="vein fusion;vein architecture or coloration or relief;row count;included veinlet count;included veinlet architecture;areole arrangement"><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.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="sorus dehiscence or orientation;sorus count;sorus shape;sorus shape;sorus shape;areole size"><b>Sori </b>on veins, transverse, 2 in each major areole on included veinlets, circular to oblong;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="indument count">indument absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties=""><b>Spores </b>tuberculate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="spore relief;x chromosome count">x = 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>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=duncan1954a
|text=Duncan, W. H. 1954. Polypodium aureum in Florida and Georgia. Amer. Fern J. 44: 155--158.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=lellinger1987a
|text=Lellinger, D. B. 1987. Nomenclatural notes on some ferns of Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. III. Amer. Fern J. 77: 101--102.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=proctor1985a
|text=Proctor, G. R. 1985. Ferns of Jamaica. London.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=snyder1986a
|text=Snyder, L. H. Jr. and J. G. Bruce. 1986. Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia. Athens, Ga.
}}
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-->{{#Taxon:
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=duncan1954a;lellinger1987a;proctor1985a;snyder1986a
|publication title=J. Bot. (Hooker)
|publication year=1841
|special status=
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|genus=Phlebodium
|adaxial groove count=2
|apex shape=rounded
|areole arrangement=closer
|areole size=major
|blade architecture or shape=pinnatisect
|blade pubescence=glabrous;glaucous
|blade shape=not pectinate;ovate;elliptic
|included veinlet architecture=excurrent
|included veinlet count=1;3
|indument count=absent
|leaf architecture=monomorphic
|leaf arrangement=spaced
|leaf shape=narrowed
|leaf some measurement=0cm;130cm
|margin architecture or shape=entire;dentate
|pair count=0;20
|petiole architecture=articulate
|petiole coloration=dark-brown
|petiole shape=round
|plant habitat=epiphytic
|rachis architecture=winged
|rachis pubescence=glabrous
|row count=1
|scale architecture=not clathrate
|scale coloration=concolored
|scale count=absent
|scale pubescence=glabrous
|scale shape=lanceolate
|segment shape=linear;lanceolate
|sinuse shape=rounded
|sorus count=2
|sorus dehiscence or orientation=transverse
|sorus shape=circular;oblong
|spore relief=tuberculate
|stem architecture=branched
|stem coating=pruinose
|stem coloration=not whitish
|stem diameter=8mm;30mm
|stem growth form or orientation=creeping
|vein architecture or coloration or relief=reticulate
|vein fusion=free
|x chromosome count=37
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