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Platycerium wandae Racib.






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Platycerium Desv. (ビカクシダ)


Epiphytes distributed in tropical regions
P. bifurcatum (Cav.) C. Chr. (ビカクシダ/コウモリラン)
P. coronarium (O. F. Müll.) Desv. (オオビカクシダモドキ)
P. grande J. Sm. (オオビカクシダ)
P. wallichii Hook. (ナガバビカクシダ)

Platycerium wandae transplanted in Japan


Nyuginiabikakushida (ニューギニアビカクシダ*, 新几内亜麋角羊歯), giant New Guinea staghorn fern or queen staghorn (* tentative)

麋角 = antler of deer

Lifeform: epiphytic, evergreen fern
Distribution: Maluku to Bismarck Archipelago (New Guinea)
Habitat: tree
Leaf: develping nest leaf (貯水葉) and foliage leaf (胞子葉)
Use: ornamental (in greenhouse)
Synonyms:

Alcicornium wilhelminae-reginae Alderw.

索引

ST1 ST2 ST3
[1-3] at Sakuya Konohana Kan (咲くやこの花館) located in Osaka, western Japan, on February 6 2022.

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