Platycerium coronarium
| Platycerium coronarium | |
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| A large specimen of Platycerium coronarium from Pahang, Malaysia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Pteridophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida/Pteridopsida (disputed) |
| Order: | Polypodiales |
| (unranked): | Eupolypods I |
| Family: | Polypodiaceae |
| Genus: | Platycerium |
| Species: | P. coronarium |
| Binomial name | |
| Platycerium coronarium (O.F.Müll.) Desv. | |
Platycerium coronarium is an epiphytic species of staghorn fern in the genus Platycerium. It is found in maritime Southeast Asia and Indochina.[1] and throughout the East Indies. It produces two kinds of leaves: Foliage leaves which are broad and upright in habit, and spore bearing leaves which are narrow, pendulous, dichotomously lobed and up to fifteen feet (4.6 meters) in length.[2]
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- ↑ "A Guide to Bukit Timah Nature Resreve Trail" (PDF). Singapore National Parks Board. Retrieved 2013-10-19.
- ↑ University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley Newsletter. Vol. 21 # 2 (Spring 1996) p. 2.
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