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 Edit this 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 Frederik Albert Christensen in Smithsonian Misc. Collect. vol.6 (Issue 9) n page 3 in 1916.


References
  1. Hassler, Michael & Schmitt, Bernd (January 2020), "Maxonia", Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, 8.20, retrieved 2020-01-17
  2. PPG I (2016), "A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns", Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 54 (6): 563–603, doi:10.1111/jse.12229, S2CID 39980610
  3. "Maxonia apiifolia (Sw.) C.Chr.", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2020-01-17
  4. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.


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