目前为止，中国西南野生生物种质资源库共保藏该物种: DNA材料2份; DNA1份; 离体材料10份;

• 科:水龙骨科    Polypodiaceae
• 属:鹿角蕨属   Platycerium
• 种:绿孢鹿角蕨   Platycerium wallichii

1. Platycerium wallichii Hooker, Gard. Chron. 765. 1858. 绿孢鹿角蕨 lü bao lu jiao jue Alcicornium wallichii (Hooker) Underwood.Rhizome thick, fleshy, shortly creeping; scales basifixed to peltate, pale with dark brown central portion, stiff, ca. 10 × 0.4 mm, margin entire. Basal fronds up to 40 cm or more, as wide as long, 3-5 times dichotomously lobed, lobes equal in length, obtuse or acute, margin entire; main veins and secondary veins raised on both surfaces, smaller ones hardly visible, main veins dichotomous, secondary ones forming network, smaller ones more copiously anastomosing; very thick and fleshy near base, more than 1 cm thick, thin and green at upper portion. Foliage fronds in pairs, 25-70 cm, subsessile, pendulous, lower portion divided into 3 uneven main lobes, upper portion of inner lobe repeatedly dichotomously branching, only outer small lobe not fertile; main veins distinct, dichotomous, smaller ones hardly visible, copiously anastomosing with included veinlets; thick, densely covered with stellate hairs; margin of lamina entire. Soral patches 2, large, at base of first sinus of 2 main lobes, mixed with stellate paraphyses. Spores 64 per sporangium, green.Epiphytic on tree trunks and large branches up to great heights from the ground, in tropical lowland rain forests; 200-1000 m. W Yunnan (Yingjiang, at border with Myanmar) [E India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand].【引自：Flora of China】

附生植物。根状茎肉质，短而横卧，密被鳞片；鳞片淡棕色或灰白色，中间深褐色，坚硬，线形，长10毫米，宽4毫米。叶2列，二型；基生不育叶 (腐殖叶) 宿存，厚革质，下部肉质，厚达1厘米，上部薄，直立，无柄，贴生于树干上，长达40厘米，长宽近相等，先端截形，不整齐，3-5次叉裂，裂片近等长，圆钝或尖头，全缘，主脉两面隆起，叶脉不明显，两面疏被星状毛，初时绿色，不久枯萎，褐色。正常能育叶常成对生长，下垂，灰绿色，长25-70厘米。分裂成不等大的3枚主裂片，基部楔形，下延，近无柄，内侧裂片最大，多次分叉成狭裂片，中裂片较小，两者都能育，外侧裂片最小，不育，裂片全缘，通体被灰白色星状毛，叶脉粗而突出。孢子囊散生于主裂片第一次分叉的凹缺处以下，不到基部，初时绿色，后变黄色；隔丝灰白色，星状毛。孢子绿色。【引自：中国植物志】