Platycerium

Accepted species 21 Documented here 6 Family Polypodiaceae

Accepted species 21 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Platycerium bifurcatum (Cav.) C.Chr. 212 documented
Platycerium superbum Joncheere & Hennipman 81 documented
Platycerium hillii T.Moore 20 documented
Platycerium coronarium (Konig) Desv. 13 documented
Platycerium elephantotis Schweinf. 8 documented
Platycerium stemaria (Beauv.) Desv. 7 documented
Platycerium alcicorne (P.Willemet) Desv. 2 below the evidence gate
Platycerium grande (A.Cunn.) J.Sm. 2 below the evidence gate
Platycerium ellisii Baker 1 below the evidence gate
Platycerium holttumii Joncheere & Hennipman 1 below the evidence gate
Platycerium quadridichotomum (Bonap.) Tardieu 1 below the evidence gate
Platycerium ridleyi Christ 1 below the evidence gate
Platycerium veitchii (Underw.) C.Chr. 1 below the evidence gate
Platycerium wallichii Hook. 1 below the evidence gate
Platycerium × elemaria Hoshiz. & M.G.Price 0 below the evidence gate
Platycerium × kitshakoodiense Ploy-ratana, Wannakr. & J.M.H.Shaw 0 below the evidence gate
Platycerium × mentelosii Hoshiz. 0 below the evidence gate
Platycerium andinum Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Platycerium madagascariense Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Platycerium wandae Racib. 0 below the evidence gate
Platycerium willinckii T.Moore 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.