Platycerium superbum
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| Platycerium superbum | |
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| Staghorn fern at North Coast Regional Botanic Garden, Australia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Division: | Polypodiophyta |
| Class: | Polypodiopsida |
| Order: | Polypodiales |
| Suborder: | Polypodiineae |
| Family: | Polypodiaceae |
| Genus: | Platycerium |
| Species: | P. superbum |
| Binomial name | |
| Platycerium superbum de Jonch. & Hennipman | |
Platycerium superbum, commonly known as the staghorn fern, is a Platycerium species of fern. It is native to Australia.
The fern is native to north-east New South Wales (north of Nabiac) and Queensland.[1] It can also be found in parts of Indonesia, Malaysia[2] and New Guinea.[3] In propagated form, the plant is grown successfully as far south as Victoria.[4]
During the 1990s, the fern was also discovered on the Hawaiian Islands where they are now considered a "problem species".[5]
