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Definition of 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 Platycerium
Literary usage of Platycerium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"platycerium. 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 ..."
2. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1864)
"... the frondose indeed, that it seems hardly possible to preserve the fronds entire.
2. platycerium, Desv. (HooK. GEN. FIL. TAB. LXX. B. Acrostichum, Sto. ..."
3. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher by Wilhelm Friedrich Benedict Hofmeister, Frederick Currey (1862)
"The outermost cellular layer of the root of platycerium, from which rootlets are
emitted, ... The apical cell of the end of the stem of platycerium ..."
4. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"platycerium. 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 ..."
5. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1864)
"... the frondose indeed, that it seems hardly possible to preserve the fronds entire.
2. platycerium, Desv. (HooK. GEN. FIL. TAB. LXX. B. Acrostichum, Sto. ..."
6. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher by Wilhelm Friedrich Benedict Hofmeister, Frederick Currey (1862)
"The outermost cellular layer of the root of platycerium, from which rootlets are
emitted, ... The apical cell of the end of the stem of platycerium ..."
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