Maxonia

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]

Maxonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Division:	Polypodiophyta
Class:	Polypodiopsida
Order:	Polypodiales
Suborder:	Polypodiineae
Family:	Dryopteridaceae
Genus:	Maxonia C.Chr.[1]
Species:	M. apiifolia
Binomial name
Maxonia apiifolia (Sw.) C.Chr.[1]
Synonyms[1]
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

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.