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|accepted_name=Cratoneuron
|accepted_authority=(Sullivant) Spruce
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Cat. Musc.,
|place=21. 1867
|year=1867
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Hypnum sect. Cratoneuron
|authority=Sullivant
|rank=section
|publication_title=in A. Gray, Manual ed.
|publication_place=2, 673. 1856
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Amblystegiaceae;Cratoneuron
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Amblystegiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cratoneuron]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek cratos, strong, and neuron, nerve, alluding to leaf costa
|volume=Volume 28
|mention_page=page 267, 648
|treatment_page=page 266
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>medium-sized, green, yellowish, or rarely brownish. <b>Stems</b> pinnate or irregularly branched; hyalodermis absent, central strand present; paraphyllia few to many, rarely absent, lanceolate; rhizoids or rhizoid initials on stem or abaxial costa insertion, often forming tomentum, usually strongly branched, smooth; axillary hair distal cells 1 or 2, hyaline. <b>Stem</b> leaves not recurved or squarrose, straight or falcate, narrowly to broadly triangular or rounded-triangular, sometimes ovate, not plicate, longer than 1 mm; base decurrent; margins plane or near base slightly recurved, denticulate or serrulate almost throughout, limbidia absent; apex acuminate, acumen plane or furrowed; costa strong, single, usually percurrent or excurrent, sometimes ending well before apex; alar cells differentiated, strongly inflated, hyaline, region well defined, transversely triangular; medial laminal cells elongate-hexagonal, short-rectangular, rectangular, short-linear, or rarely linear, smooth; marginal cells 1-stratose. <b>Sexual</b> condition dioicous. <b>Capsule</b> horizontal, cylindric, curved; peristome perfect; exostome margins slightly dentate distally; endostome cilia 2 or 3, well developed, nodose. <b>Spores</b> 14–21(–25) µm.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;South America;Eurasia;Africa;Atlantic Islands;Pacific Islands (New Zealand).
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Cratoneuron</i> grows in slightly or strongly calcareous habitats that are at least periodically wet; plants have a strong leaf costa, relatively short, smooth laminal cells, and mostly lanceolate and leaflike paraphyllia. The differences between <i>Cratoneuron</i> and 2. <i>Palustriella</i> are described under the latter.</p>
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name=Cratoneuron
|author=Lars Hedenäs
|authority=(Sullivant) Spruce
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Hypnum sect. Cratoneuron
|family=Amblystegiaceae
|distribution=North America;South America;Eurasia;Africa;Atlantic Islands;Pacific Islands (New Zealand).
|reference=None
|publication title=Cat. Musc.,
|publication year=1867
|special status=
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|genus=Cratoneuron
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