The Platycerium veitchii is probably named for the Veitch nursery in Exeter England, founded by James Veitch in the late 18th century and run by the family until it closed in 1914.

P. veitchii, common name Silver Elkhorn is from Australia and is closely related to P. biforcatum, but is unique in several ways.  It is covered with a great amount of white hair.  The tops of the shield fronds grow into tall thin fingers.  Its fertile fronds are very upright.  You can see in the photo above the tall fingers on the shield fronds

Roy Vail suggests these traits are adaptations to the dry conditions where it is native.  It likes very high light levels for these traits to be fully shown.  If the light is less, the fertile fronds are less erect, have fewer hairs, and the fingers along the tops of the shield fronds are shorter.  Roy ail has documented a Platycerium veitchii cv Lemoinei growing in low light that has long slender fertile fronds with no spore patches.  After the fronds mature, they can not support their own weight and droop down.  That same plant 18 months later has very erect fertile fronds with spore patches after it was moved into a high light environment.

In its native habitat, the P. veitchii is seen growing on rocks, near springs, in semi-arid basins in eastern Australia.  It withstands droughts of several months.

P. veitchii cv Lemoinei is sometimes offered in the trade as "green veitchii".  When compared to a regular P. veitchii the fertile fronds are much greener. The true P. veitchii is almost identical to the cultivar Lemoinei, but the Lemoinei is greener than the true P. veichii. 

There are several different cultivars of P. veitchi.  The most common is shown in photographs on this page.  There is another P. veitchii with very stiff and very narrow fertile fronds that form wide hands at the tip.  There is another with fronds that look like a P. hillii.  Both these grow in the wild in Australia.  There is also a cross between P. hillii and P. veitchii that grows round shield fronds without the typical P. veitchii tall finger shield fronds.

More info:http://www.halling.com/platyceriums/Veitchii.htm

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