Definition of Genus Platycerium

1. Noun. Often epiphytic tropical Old World ferns.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Platycerium

genus Pitta
genus Pituophis
genus Pitymys
genus Pityrogramma
genus Placuna
genus Plagianthus
genus Planera
genus Planococcus
genus Plantago
genus Plasmodiophora
genus Plasmodium
genus Platalea
genus Platanthera
genus Platanus
genus Platichthys
genus Platycerium (current term)
genus Platylobium
genus Platymiscium
genus Platypoecilus
genus Platystemon
genus Plautus
genus Plecotus
genus Plectania
genus Plectorrhiza
genus Plectranthus
genus Plectrophenax
genus Pleione
genus Pleiospilos
genus Plesianthropus
genus Plesiosaurus

Literary usage of Genus Platycerium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1900)
"218, established the genus Platycerium, he considered the Australian plant to be specifically different from A. ..."

2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"Like features are to be found in the genus Platycerium '. This fern has two kinds of leaves : one is that of the mantle-leaf, wholly spread out close upon ..."

3. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1864)
"... and in the genus Platycerium. Many have been the attempts to divide the species into a number of distinct genera, but, as will be seen by the synonyms I ..."

4. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1911)
"... it was originally referred to the ferns by Andra? who compared his species with the exisiting genus Platycerium. Other students compared these forms ..."

5. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"The most remarkable examples of pocket-leaves appear in the fern-genus Platycerium (Fig. 164), in which they are sessile and broad, are closely applied ..."

6. The Principles of Floriculture by Edward Albert White (1915)
"... genus, Platycerium (Greek, broad horn, alluding to the shape of the leaves); species: Ango- ..."

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