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Definition of Genus Platycerium
1. Noun. Often epiphytic tropical Old World ferns.
Generic synonyms: Fern Genus
Group relationships: Family Polypodiaceae, Polypodiaceae
Member holonyms: Staghorn Fern, Common Staghorn Fern, Elkhorn Fern, Platycerium Alcicorne, Platycerium Bifurcatum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Platycerium
Literary usage of Genus Platycerium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1900)
"218, established the genus Platycerium, he considered the Australian plant to be
specifically different from A. ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"Like features are to be found in the genus Platycerium '. This fern has two kinds
of leaves : one is that of the mantle-leaf, wholly spread out close upon ..."
3. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1864)
"... and in the genus Platycerium. Many have been the attempts to divide the species
into a number of distinct genera, but, as will be seen by the synonyms I ..."
4. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1911)
"... it was originally referred to the ferns by Andra? who compared his species
with the exisiting genus Platycerium. Other students compared these forms ..."
5. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"The most remarkable examples of pocket-leaves appear in the fern-genus
Platycerium (Fig. 164), in which they are sessile and broad, are closely applied ..."
6. The Principles of Floriculture by Edward Albert White (1915)
"... genus, Platycerium (Greek, broad horn, alluding to the shape of the leaves);
species: Ango- ..."
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