Platycerium (two-forked)

Family Polypodiaceae. Epiphytic plant with two types of leaves — spore-bearing and sterile.

The former are gathered in a rosette, slightly glaucous (young ones whitish from dense pubescence), 50-70 cm long, cuneate at the base, widening upward, in the upper half once- or twice-deeply forked-dissected into strap-shaped, blunt, pendulous lobes 3-4 cm wide. Sporangia (not grouped into sori) are located on the underside of the tips of the leaf lobes, covering them continuously over a considerable area. Sterile leaves are almost rounded, entire or with notches along the margin, pressed against the substrate. Their reflexed upper edge forms a peculiar "pocket" where decaying organic debris and water accumulate, and into which the plant directs its adventitious roots. Grows in forests and forest edges — on the trunks of trees.

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