Platycerium willinckii ‘Nano’

Huang Yuan states that Nano was among four then-unnamed dwarf P. willinckii plants located among Indonesian growers circa 2016–2017 and later circulated principally through Taiwan.

Huang Yuan says the group that included the plant later named Nano had no individual names when first acquired.

The established specialist and market styling is P. willinckii ‘Nano’; the species plus single-quoted epithet is more informative than the bare label Nano.

Nano is a compact dwarf P. willinckii with short fertile fronds that repeatedly divide into many fine terminal forks, dense dark- to blue-silver indumentum, and a mature lower surface that may appear silver-yellow to brown around the sori.

Community and market sources describe Nano as a wild-collected dwarf from Java, Indonesia.

Fertile Nano spores, gametophyte culture, and commercial Nano sporelings are documented.

Cultivated Nano is documented producing removable vegetative pups or offsets.

Plants labeled P. willinckii ‘Nano’ are commercially available as tissue-culture or mericlone material.

Staghorn Diary credits 教官 (“Instructor”), the grower who runs the staghorn-fern business 蕨晴谷, with selecting Nano from imported P. willinckii described as wild-collected and naming it for its exceptionally small size.