staghorn fern (redirected from stag's-horn fern)

stag·horn fern  (stghôrn)

n.

Any of several tropical epiphytic ferns of the genus Platycerium, having large, dichotoemously divided fertile fronds that resemble antlers.

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staghorn fern - any of various tropical ferns of the genus Platycerium having large flat lobed fronds often resembling the antlers of a stag fern - any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores genus Platycerium, Platycerium - often epiphytic tropical Old World ferns Platycerium andinum, South American staghorn - fern of Peru and Bolivia common staghorn fern, elkhorn fern, Platycerium alcicorne, Platycerium bifurcatum - commonly cultivated fern of Australia and southeastern Asia and Polynesia