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staghorn fern

DEFINITIONS OF: staghorn fern

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n any of various tropical ferns of the genus Platycerium having large flat lobed fronds often resembling the antlers of a stag

Types:
Platycerium andinum, South American staghorn
fern of Peru and Bolivia
Platycerium alcicorne, Platycerium bifurcatum, common staghorn fern, elkhorn fern
commonly cultivated fern of Australia and southeastern Asia and Polynesia
Type of:
fern
any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
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