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Platycerium stemaria
Guinea elk's horn fern
Other common names
triangle stag's horn ferntriangular staghorn fern
Botanical details
- Family
- Polypodiaceae
- Native to GB / Ireland
- No
- Genus
Platycerium
- Genus description
Platycerium are evergreen, epiphytic ferns with short rhizomes, and a tuft of rounded or heart-shaped sterile fronds, sometimes lobed on the upper margin, and erect or pendent, grey-green fertile fronds which are usually repeatedly forked
- Name status
Unresolved
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