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 Species

There are a few different ways of listing all the species. Personally I prefer listing them by Continents or countries but different locations have have more than one kind of climate and it is useful to know what kind of habitat they come from. They have been listed in both ways here. Just click the link and it will take you to more information and images of the species

Java - Australian

• Platycerium bifurcatum / Elkhorn (Australia, Papua New Guinea & New Caledonia)

• Platycerium willinckii ( Indonesia, Java & Papua New Guinea )

• Platycerium veitchii / Silver Elkhorn ( Australia )

• Platycerium hillii ( Australia & Papua New Guinea )

Malayan - Asiatic

• Platycerium superbum / Staghorn ( Australia )

• Platycerium grande ( Philippines )

• Platycerium wandae ( Papua New Guinea )

• Platycerium holttumii ( Thailand, Vietnam & Laos )

• Platycerium wallichii (Thailand & Malaysia )

• Platycerium coronarium ( Philippines, Indo China & Malaysia )

• Platycerium ridleyii ( Malaysia & Indonesia )

Afro - American

• Platycerium alcicorne / was Vassei ( Africa & Madagascar )

• Platycerium stemmaria ( Central Africa )

• Platycerium elephantotis / Cabbage stag or Elephant stag ( Central and East Africa )

• Platycerium madagascariens ( Madagascar )

• Platycerium quadridichotomum ( Madagascar )

• Platycerium andinum ( South America - Bolivia & Peru )

• Platycerium ellisii (Western Madagascar)

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     Platycerium species, listed by habitat, & how closely they are related.

From wettest places

• Platycerium madagascariens (Madagascar cloud forests)

• Platycerium hillii (Tropical rain forests of North Queensland)

• Platycerium alcicorne  was (vassei) (West African coast)

• Platycerium ellisii (Western Madagascar)

• Platycerium ridleyii (Borneo, Sumatra, Malay Peninsula)
         

From places with wet and dry seasons

• Platycerium coronarium (Vietnam, Burma, Thailand, Philippines)

• Platycerium bifurcatum (Eastern Australia, along the coast, and inland in some places/an under story plant.)

• Platycerium willinckii (Considered to be the most primitive Platycerium.  Native to Java.)

• Platycerium andinum (Isolated pockets of Peru and Bolivia/Tropical dry forest)

• Platycerium elephantotis  (Angolensis) (Equatorial Africa except the Congo basin)

• Platycerium stemmaria (Central and western Africa)

• Platycerium superbum (Australia only. About the same range as P. bifurcatum)

• Platycerium grande (True grande is only from the Philippines)

• Platycerium holttumii (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand)

• Platycerium wandae (Only in Java/Largest Platycerium)

• Platycerium wallichii ( India, Burma, Thailand, Yunnan Province of China)
     

Semi-desert

• Platycerium quadridichotomum (North western Madagascar, the dry side)

• Platycerium veitchii (Eastern Australia)

        L.O.