Definition of Platycerium

1. Noun. Often epiphytic tropical Old World ferns.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Platycerium

Platonic solids
Platonic year
Platonick
Platonism
Platonist
Platonistic
Platonists
Platt National Park
Plattdeutsch
Platte
Platte River
Platte River penstemon
Plattensee
Platycephalidae
Platycerium
Platycerium alcicorne
Platycerium andinum
Platycerium bifurcatum
Platycladus orientalis
Platyctenea
Platyhelminthes
Platylobium
Platylobium formosum
Platymiscium
Platymiscium pinnatum
Platymiscium trinitatis
Platypoecilus
Platypoecilus maculatus
Platyrrhini

Literary usage of Platycerium

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

1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"platycerium. 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 ..."

2. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1864)
"... the frondose indeed, that it seems hardly possible to preserve the fronds entire. 2. platycerium, Desv. (HooK. GEN. FIL. TAB. LXX. B. Acrostichum, Sto. ..."

3. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher by Wilhelm Friedrich Benedict Hofmeister, Frederick Currey (1862)
"The outermost cellular layer of the root of platycerium, from which rootlets are emitted, ... The apical cell of the end of the stem of platycerium ..."

4. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"platycerium. 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 ..."

5. Species Filicum: Being Descriptions of the Known Ferns, Particularly of Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1864)
"... the frondose indeed, that it seems hardly possible to preserve the fronds entire. 2. platycerium, Desv. (HooK. GEN. FIL. TAB. LXX. B. Acrostichum, Sto. ..."

6. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher by Wilhelm Friedrich Benedict Hofmeister, Frederick Currey (1862)
"The outermost cellular layer of the root of platycerium, from which rootlets are emitted, ... The apical cell of the end of the stem of platycerium ..."

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