Platycerium

at Hideaway Palmetum

  • alcicorne
  • andinum
  • bifurcatum
  • coronarium
  • elephantotis
  • grande
  • hillii
  • hillii “Panama”
  • holttumii
  • horn’s surprise (p.alcicorne x p.madagascariense)
  • mt.kitshakood (p.coronarium x p.ridleyii)
  • mt.kitshakood “Thin-Thin”
  • neptune (p.elephantotis x p.stemaria)
  • ridleyi
  • stemaria
  • wallichii
  • wandae
  • willinckii
  • veitchii

Platycerium Species from Plants of the World Online

Operated by Kew Royal Botanic Gardens

This accepted genus includes 17 species.

Kew Gardens POWO Accessed 6/11/2024

Native to:

Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Repu, China South-Central, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nigeria, Norfolk Is., Peru, Philippines, Queensland, Rwanda, Réunion, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Canary Is., Colombia, Hawaii, India, KwaZulu-Natal, Marianas, New Zealand North, Taiwan

“The native range of this genus is Tropical & Subtropical Old World, Peru to Bolivia.” – Kew

Other Documentation

Figure 2 is from Phylogeny and biogeography of the staghorn fern genus Platycerium (Polypodiaceae, Polypodiidae)
Article in American Journal of Botany · February 2006

Pictured below is a page out of the Fern Growers Manual by Barbera Joe Hoshizaki and Robbin C. Moran (2001)