- Family: Polypodiaceae J.Presl & C.Presl
Platycerium Desv.
This genus is accepted, and its native range is Tropical & Subtropical Old World, Peru to Bolivia.
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Distribution
Native to:
Angola, Assam, 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
Accepted Species
- Platycerium alcicorne Desv.
- Platycerium andinum Baker
- Platycerium bifurcatum (Cav.) C.Chr.
- Platycerium coronarium (Konig) Desv.
- Platycerium × elemaria Hoshiz. & M.G.Price
- Platycerium elephantotis Schweinf.
- Platycerium ellisii Baker
- Platycerium grande (A.Cunn.) J.Sm.
- Platycerium hillii T.Moore
- Platycerium holttumii Joncheere & Hennipman
- Platycerium madagascariense Baker
- Platycerium quadridichotomum (Bonap.) Tardieu
- Platycerium ridleyi Christ
- Platycerium stemaria (Beauv.) Desv.
- Platycerium superbum Joncheere & Hennipman
- Platycerium veitchii (Underw.) C.Chr.
- Platycerium wallichii Hook.
- Platycerium wandae Racib.
Synonyms
Other Data
Platycerium Desv. appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Mém. Soc. Linn. Paris 6(3): 213 (1827)
Accepted by
- Roskov Y. & al. (eds.) (2018). World Ferns: Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Sources
Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0