Codia

Codia
Codia montana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Oxalidales
Family: Cunoniaceae
Genus: Codia
J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.[1]
Synonyms
  • Pfeifferago Kuntze

Codia is a genus of trees and shrubs in the family Cunoniaceae. The genus is endemic to New Caledonia in the Pacific and contains 15 species.[2] The leaves are opposite or whorled, simple, and the margin usually entire. The flowers are arranged in capitula. the ovary is inferior. The fruit is indehiscent and is covered with woolly hairs.

An extinct species of Codia, C. australiensis, has been found as a fossil in Australia, resembling the juvenile foliage of a living species in the genus.[3] Codia is most closely related to the Australian Callicoma serratifolia.[4]

  1. ^ The genus Codia, and its type (C. montana), were first described and published in Characteres Generum Plantarum in 1775. "Plant Name Details for Genus Codia", Index Nominum Genericorum (ING), retrieved 7 January 2016, Type Information: Codia montana Forster & G.Forster
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