Platycerium

Genus in the Global Pollen Project's Master Reference Collection

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Distribution
Platycerium (rights holder: 2010 Moorea Biocode)© 2010 Moorea Biocode (licence)

Staghorn

Large epiphytes with short rounded rhizomes and a mass of roots. Fronds strongly dimorphous. Sterile fronds clasping the host (forming 'nest leaves'), sessile, persistent, circular to oblong, entire to shallowly lobed, becoming brown and enclosing a mass of roots, old sterile fronds and plant detritus. Fertile fronds emerging from the base of the sterile fronds, simple and broadly cuneate to dicho... © Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings (licence)

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Definition
Parent Taxon
Polypodiaceae
Species
Taxonomic Completion
11.11%
1 of 9 accepted Species
Global Pollen Project UUID
40a9e1f6-c6d2-4628-a382-e122e64eef4a
Botanical Reference
None available. You can check The Plant List for further information.
Connected data sources

This taxon is currently linked to the following locations.

The Plant ListGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility