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|accepted_name=Maxonia
|accepted_authority=C. Christensen
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Smithsonian Misc. Collect.
|place=66(9): 3. 1916
|year=1916
}}
|common_names=Climbing wood fern
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Dryopteridaceae;Maxonia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Dryopteridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Maxonia]]</div></div>
|etymology=for William R. Maxon, (1877–1948), American pteridologist
|volume=Volume 2
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>hemiepiphytic. <b>Stems</b> long-creeping and climbing trees, stolons absent. <b>Leaves</b> strongly dimorphic, fertile leaves greatly contracted, evergreen. <b>Petiole</b> ± equaling length of blade, base not swollen; vascular bundles more than 3, arranged in an arc, ± round in cross section. <b>Blade</b> deltate, 3–4-pinnate-pinnatifid, gradually reduced distally to pinnatifid apex, somewhat leathery. <b>Pinnae</b> not articulate to rachis, segment margins dentate to lobed; proximal pinnae largest or nearly so, petiolulate, ± equilateral or inequilateral, basiscopic side with pinnules longer than on acroscopic side; costae adaxially deeply grooved, grooves continuous from rachis to costae to costules; indument of transparent hairs along costae on both sides, also with a few linear scales abaxially on costae. <b>Veins</b> free, simple or forked. <b>Sori</b> in 1 row between midrib and margin, round; indusia round-reniform with shallow sinus, persistent. <b>Spores</b> brownish, spiny to broadly rugose. <b>x</b> = 41.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tropical.
|discussion=<p>Species 1 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=christensen1916a
|text=Christensen, C. 1916. Maxonia, a new genus of tropical American ferns. Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 66(9): 1--4.
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|id=moran1987a
|text=Moran, R. C. 1987. Monograph of the neotropical fern genus Polybotrya (Dryopteridaceae). Bull. Illinois Nat. Hist. Surv. 34: 1--138.
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|id=walker1972a
|text=Walker, T. G. 1972. The anatomy of Maxonia apiifolia: A climbing fern. Brit. Fern Gaz. 10: 241--250.
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name=Maxonia
|author=Robbin C. Moran
|authority=C. Christensen
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Dryopteridaceae
|distribution=Tropical.
|reference=christensen1916a;moran1987a;walker1972a
|publication title=Smithsonian Misc. Collect.
|publication year=1916
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|genus=Maxonia
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