Codia

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.

Codia
Codia montana
Scientific 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

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]

List of species

(all endemic to New Caledonia[2])

  • Codia albicans Vieill. ex Pamp.
  • Codia albifrons (Brongn. ex Schinz & Guillaumin) Baker f.
  • Codia belepensis H.C. Hopkins
  • Codia discolor (Brongn. & Gris) Guillaumin
  • Codia ferruginea Brongn. & Gris
  • Codia fusca (Schltr.) H.C. Hopkins
  • Codia incrassata Pamp.
  • Codia jaffrei H.C. Hopkins & B. Fogliani
  • Codia mackeeana H.C. Hopkins & B. Fogliani
  • Codia microphylla Vieill. ex Guillaumin
  • Codia montana J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
  • Codia nitida Schltr.
  • Codia spatulata Brongn. & Gris
  • Codia triverticillata H.C. Hopkins & Pillon
  • Codia xerophila Pillon, H.C. Hopkins & Gâteblé

References
  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
  2. Hopkins, H.C., Pillon, Y., Hoogland, R.D. (2014). Cunoniaceae : Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, volume 26. Publications scientifiques du Muséum, Paris ; IRD, Marseille, 455 p. (collection Faune et Flore tropicales ; 45)
  3. Barnes, Richard W.; Hill, Robert S. (1999), "Macrofossils of Callicoma and Codia (Cunoniaceae) from Australian Cainozoic sediments", Australian Systematic Botany, 12 (5): 647–670, doi:10.1071/SB98016
  4. Bradford, J.C. & Barnes, R.W. (2001). Phylogenetics and classification of Cunoniaceae (Oxalidales) using chloroplast DNA sequences and morphology. Systematic Botany 26 (2): 354‑85.
  • Johann Reinhold Forster (1776), "Plate 30, Codia", Characteres generum plantarum, quas in itinere ad insulas maris Australis
  • Johann Reinhold Forster (1776), "Octandria Digynia: 30. Codia", Characteres generum plantarum, quas in itinere ad insulas maris Australis, pp. 59–60
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