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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
Malayan - Asiatic
Afro - American
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Platycerium species, listed
by habitat, & how closely they are related.
From wettest places
From places with wet and dry
seasons
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Platycerium coronarium (Vietnam, Burma, Thailand,
Philippines)
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Platycerium bifurcatum (Eastern Australia, along the coast, and inland in some
places/an under story plant.)
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Platycerium willinckii (Considered to be the most primitive
Platycerium. Native to Java.)
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Platycerium andinum
(Isolated pockets of Peru and Bolivia/Tropical dry forest)
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Platycerium elephantotis
(Angolensis) (Equatorial Africa except the Congo basin)
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Platycerium stemmaria (Central and western
Africa)
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Platycerium superbum (Australia only.
About the same range as P. bifurcatum)
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Platycerium grande (True grande is only from the
Philippines)
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Platycerium holttumii (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam,
Thailand)
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Platycerium wandae (Only in
Java/Largest Platycerium)
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Platycerium wallichii (
India, Burma, Thailand, Yunnan Province of China)
Semi-desert
L.O.
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