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