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Hierarchical position of the Genus Platycerium

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Polypodiophyta Cronquist syn. Filicinophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm., Taxon 15: 133. Apr 1966. common name: ferns       Subdivisio  Polypodiophytina Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.       Classis  Polypodiopsida Cronquist pub. Takht. & Zimmerm., Taxon 15: 133. Apr 1966.       Subclassis  Polypodiidae Cronquist pub. Takht. & Zimmerm., Taxon 15: 133. Apr 1966.       Ordo  Polypodiales Mett. ex A.B. Frank in Leunis pub. Syn. Pflanzenk., ed. 2, 3: 1453, 1458. 1877.       Subordo  Polypodiineae Bessey pub. Bot. High Schools: 377. Mai-Sep 1880.       Familia  Polypodiaceae Bercht. & J. Presl pub. Prir. Rostlin: 272. 1820. common name: Common Ferns       Genus  Platycerium Desv. pub. (1827)

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.