Maxonia

Maxonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Polypodiales
Suborder:	Polypodiineae
Family:	Dryopteridaceae
Genus:	Maxonia; C.Chr.
Species:	M. apiifolia
Binomial name
	Maxonia apiifolia; (Sw.) C.Chr.
Synonyms
	Aspidium apiifolium (Sw.) Mett.ex Kuhn ; Aspidium ascendens (Heward) Hook. ; Aspidium ascendens Heward ; Dennstaedtia apiifolia (Sw.) Moore ; Dicksonia apiifolia Sw. ; Dryopteris apiifolia (Sw.) Kuntze ; Lastrea ascendens (Heward) J.Sm. ; Nephrodium ascendens (Heward) Donn.Sm. ; Polystichum apiifolium (Sw.) C.Chr. ; Polystichum ascendens (Heward) Moore ;

Maxonia is a genus of ferns in the fern family Dryopteridaceae, subfamily Polybotryoideae, in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).^[2] The genus has a single species Maxonia apiifolia, native to Cuba and Jamaica.^[1] It formerly occurred in Florida, but is now extinct there.^[3]

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The genus name of Maxonia is in honour of William Ralph Maxon (1877–1948), who was an American botanist and pteridologist.^[4]

The genus was circumscribed by Carl Christensen in Smithsonian Misc. Collect. vol.6 (Issue 9) n page 3 in 1916.

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