The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Platycerium

The genus Platycerium is in the family Polypodiaceae in the major group Pteridophytes (Ferns and fern allies).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Platycerium

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Platycerium alcicorne (Willemet) Desv. Accepted M TRO
Platycerium angolense Welw. ex Hook. Accepted M TRO
Platycerium bifurcatum (Cav.) C. Chr. Accepted M TRO
Platycerium coronarium (Mull.) Desv. Accepted M TRO
Platycerium ellisii Baker Accepted M TRO
Platycerium madagascariense Baker Accepted M TRO
Platycerium quadridichotomum (Bonap.) Tardieu Accepted M TRO
Platycerium stemaria (P. Beauv.) Desv. Accepted M TRO
Platycerium wallichii Hook. Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 31 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Platycerium. Of these 9 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 3 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Platycerium. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 31 species names for the genus Platycerium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 9 29.0%
Synonym 4 12.9%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 18 58.1%

All names

The status of the 34 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Platycerium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 9 26.5%
Synonym 7 20.6%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 18 52.9%

The confidence with which the status of the 31 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Platycerium, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 9 4 0 0 13 41.9%
Low confidence 0 0 0 18 18 58.1%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Platycerium, are as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
IPNI 0 0 0 12 0 12 38.7%
Tropicos 9 4 0 6 0 19 61.3%