Matonia

{{Short description|Genus of ferns}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Early Jurassic|Recent}}

| image = Matonia pectinata.png

| image_caption = Matonia pectinata

| taxon = Matonia

| authority = R.Br.

| type_species = Matonia pectinata

| type_species_authority = R.Br.

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

| synonyms = {{Genus list

|Prionopteris|Wall.

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Matonia is a genus of fern, named for English botanist William George Maton.{{cite book|last=Quattrocchi|first=Umberto |title=CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology|publisher=CRC Press|date=1999|pages=1630|isbn=9780849326776|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kaN-hLL-3qEC&q=Matonia&pg=PA1630}} It is native to Thailand, Malesia (the Malayan peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, Maluku and the Philippines) and New Guinea.

{{As of|2019|October}}, Plants of the World Online and the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World accept two extant species:

• Matonia pectinata R.Br.
• Matonia foxworthyi Copel.

Matonia sarmentosa is now placed in the genus Phanerosorus as Phanerosorus sarmentosus (Baker) Copel.

Matonia has a fossil record extending back to the earliest part of the Jurassic period, with Matonia braunii being known from the Hettangian aged Mecsek Coal Formation of Hungary{{Cite journal|last1=Barbacka|first1=Maria|last2=Kustatscher|first2=Evelyn|last3=Bodor|first3=Emese R.|date=2019-03-01|title=Ferns of the Lower Jurassic from the Mecsek Mountains (Hungary): taxonomy and palaeoecology|journal=PalZ|language=en|volume=93|issue=1|pages=151–185|doi=10.1007/s12542-018-0430-8|issn=1867-6812|doi-access=free|bibcode=2019PalZ...93..151B |hdl=10831/50668|hdl-access=free}} and Zagaje Formation of Poland.{{Cite journal|last1=Barbacka|first1=Maria|last2=Pacyna|first2=Grzegorz|last3=Pieńkowski|first3=Grzegorz|last4=Ziaja|first4=Jadwiga|date=2016-12-15|title=New data about Matonia braunii (Göppert) Harris from the Early Jurassic of Poland and its ecology|url=https://gq.pgi.gov.pl/article/view/25554/pdf_1320|journal=Geological Quarterly|volume=60 |issue=4 |doi=10.7306/gq.1322|doi-access=free}}