Staghorn Fern

{| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Image !! Name !! Distribution |- | ||Platycerium alcicorne || Madagascar, Comoros Island, Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe. |- | ||Platycerium andinum || Colombia, Bolivia and Peru. |- | ||Platycerium bifurcatum || Australia states of New South Wales, Queensland, Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island. |- | ||Platycerium coronarium || Indonesia Sumatra, Kalimantan, West Java, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam. |- | ||Platycerium ellisii || Madagascar only in the provinces of Antsiranana and Toamasina. |- | ||Platycerium elephantotis || Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Dem. Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan and South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, tropical Africa |- | ||Large antler fern (Platycerium grande || Philippines Province of Mindanao and Indonesia, in the Province of North Sulawesi and Gorontalo. |- | ||Platycerium hillii (Also referred to as a variety of Platycerium bifurcatum var. Hillii (T. Moore) Domin)|| Australia Queensland, Papua New Guinea and Papua Indonesia. |- | ||Platycerium holttumii || Malaysia, Northern Peninsular, State of Perlis, Kedah, Perak and Kelantan, Thailand and Indochina. |- | ||Platycerium madagascariense || Madagascar in the provinces of Antsiranana, Fianarantsoa and Toamasina. |- | ||Platycerium quadridichotomum || Madagascar only in Ankarana, Bemaraha, Bemarivo, Montagne d'Ambre including Fôret d'Ambre. |- | ||Platycerium ridleyi || Malaysia, Southern Thailand, Indonesia Sumatra and Kalimantan. |- | ||Triangle antler fern (Platycerium stemaria || Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Dem. Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea (incl. Bioko), Gabon, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Senegal, Sudan and South Sudan, Uganda, Principe, Sao Tomé, tropical Africa. |- | ||Magnificent antler fern (Platycerium superbum || Queensland and New South Wales. |- |||Platycerium veitchii (Syn .: Platycerium bifurcatum subsp. Veitchii (Underw.) Hennipman & M. C. Roos)|| Queensland. |- | ||Platycerium wallichii || Northeastern India, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar and western Yunnan. |- | ||Platycerium wandae || Papua New Guinea, Indonesia Papua and Maluku Island. |- | ||Platycerium willinckii (Also referred to as a subspecies of Platycerium bifurcatum subsp. Willinckii (T. Moore) Hennipman & M. C. Roos ).|| Sulawesi and Java |- |}

The species Platycerium bifurcatum and Platycerium superbum are commonly cultivated as ornamental plants. These oddly shaped ferns grow on trees and rocks and can be found in gardens, especially tropical gardens. Staghorns can be propagated by spores produced on the underside of the fertile fronds. Colonial Platycerium can also be vegetatively propagated by carefully dividing large healthy ones into smaller, separate plants. These new plants can then be attached to board mounts or be strapped to trees until they take to the tree themselves. A mature staghorn can grow more than wide.