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|accepted_name=Erpodium
|accepted_authority=(Bridel) Bridel
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in H. G. L. Reichenbach, Consp. Regn. Veg.,
|place=32. 1828 ,
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Anoectangium subg. Erpodium
|authority=Bridel
|rank=subgenus
|publication_title=Bryol. Univ.
|publication_place=2: 167. 1827
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Erpodiaceae;Erpodium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Erpodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Erpodium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek erpo, creeping, alluding to growth habit
|volume=Volume 27
|mention_page=page 470, 472
|treatment_page=page 471
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>dull or shiny, light to dark green. <b>Leaves</b> ± monomorphic, spirally arranged, appressed or spreading and complanate when dry, spreading and often complanate when wet, bilaterally symmetric to asymmetric, ovate, elliptic, or lanceolate, rounded to obtuse, or acute, acuminate to subulate; laminal cells smooth or pluripapillose, distal cells rhombic to hexagonal, proximal cells oblate-oblong in several marginal rows. <b>Perichaetial</b> leaves enlarged or not, sheathing. <b>Seta</b> short, usually straight. <b>Capsule</b> immersed to shortly exserted, stomata few; annulus none to broad and persistent; peristome absent (or present); operculum usually rostrate. <b>Calyptra</b> mitrate, lobed at base, ± plicate.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa;Australia.
|discussion=<p>Species 17–24 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves hyaline-subulate; laminal cells smooth.
|[[Erpodium acrifolium|Erpodium acrifolium]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves obtuse to rounded; laminal cells pluripapillose.
|[[Erpodium domingense|Erpodium domingense]]
|}
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name=Erpodium
|authority=(Bridel) Bridel
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Anoectangium subg. Erpodium
|family=Erpodiaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa;Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=in H. G. L. Reichenbach, Consp. Regn. Veg.,
|publication year=
|special status=
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|genus=Erpodium
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