Dicranopygium

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image=Dicranopygium microcephalum.png

|image_caption=Dicranopygium microcephalumillustration probably by Matilda Smith (1854-1926) - Curtis's Botanical Magazine v.118 [ser. 3:v.48] (1892)

|taxon = Dicranopygium

|authority = Harling 1954

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File:Dicranopygium microcephalum - Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg - DSC07977.JPG]]

Dicranopygium is a genus of plants belonging to the family Cyclanthaceae, first described as a genus in 1954. They are distributed in the Neotropical realm from southern Mexico to Peru.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=304206 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][https://archive.today/20121211162257/http://pick4.pick.uga.edu/mp/20q?search=Dicranopygium Discover Life Dicranopygium page]Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil {{cite web|url=http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-08-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906080403/http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/ |archivedate=2015-09-06 }}. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de JaneiroIdárraga-Piedrahita, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. (eds.) 2011. Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 9–939. Universidad de Antioquia, MedellínCorrea A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, PanamáHarling, G. W. 1958. Monograph of the Cyclanthaceae. Acta Horti Bergiani 18: 1–428