Platycerium coronarium(Konig) Desv.

WFO wfo-0001224687 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Platycerium coronarium, photographed by Bernard DUPONT
fig. a Bernard DUPONT, CC BY 4.0 / 2015-11-09 / obs. 142590847
Platycerium coronarium, photographed by Jan Vršovský
fig. b Jan Vršovský, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 111184142
Platycerium coronarium, photographed by Utain Pummarin
fig. c Utain Pummarin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171854250
Platycerium coronarium, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. d Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142325939
Platycerium coronarium, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps
fig. e Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 111894671
Platycerium coronarium, photographed by Utain Pummarin
fig. f Utain Pummarin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171854263
Platycerium coronarium, photographed by Julien Renoult
fig. g Julien Renoult, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 3158947
Platycerium coronarium, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. h Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 26618150

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Platycerium coronarium is native: Borneo, Cambodia, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam BorneoCambodiaLaosMalayaMyanmarPhilippinesSumateraThailandVietnam
Native distribution of Platycerium coronarium, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Borneo BOR ASIA-TROPICAL
Cambodia CBD
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Myanmar MYA
Philippines PHI
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 370 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 17.7 °C 23.6 °C 24.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.7 °C 29.5 °C 33.3 °C
Annual rainfall 2,136 mm 2,702 mm 4,595 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 70 mm 503 mm 696 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 370 research-grade observations of Platycerium coronarium that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Acrostichum biforme Sw.
  • Acrostichum fuciforme Wall.
  • Alcicornium coronarium Underw.
  • Neuroplatyceros biformis (Sw.) Fée
  • Osmunda coronaria Konig; Mull.
  • Platycerium biforme Blume
  • Platycerium platylobum Bidin & R.Jaman

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.