Codia

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Codia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Oxalidales
Family: Cunoniaceae
Genus: Codia
J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.[1]
Type species
Codia montana[1]
Species

see text

Codia is a genus of flowering plants, in the botanical family Cunoniaceae which includes several species of evergreen trees and shrubs. The genus has 17 species native to New Caledonia and Australia in the Pacific. It is a genus of small and large trees and shrubs of the Antarctic flora, in coastal eastern Australia (Codia montana).

The leaves are opposite, and either simple or pinnate with 3–13 leaflets. The flowers are produced in late summer or autumn, are showy and sweetly scented, 3–6 cm diameter, with four creamy-white petals, and numerous stamens and styles. The fruit is a woody capsule 1–1.5 cm long containing several seeds, and maturing in 12–15 months.

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. The extant Callicoma serratifolia also bears certain morphological similarities to Codia that may indicate a common ancestor.[2]

Selected species

  • Codia albicans Vieill. ex Pamp.
  • Codia albifrons (Brongn. ex Schinz ex Guillaumin) Baker f.
  • Codia belepensis H.C.Hopkins
  • Codia cinerascens (Vieill. ex Pamp.) H.C.Hopkins
  • Codia discolor (Brongn. & Griseb) Guillaumin
  • Codia ferruginea Brongn. & Gris
  • Codia fusca (Schltr.) H.C.Hopkins
  • Codia incrassata Pamp.
  • Codia jaffrei H.C.Hopkins & Fogliani
  • Codia mackeeana H.C.Hopkins & 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
List source : [3]

Citations

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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". IPNI. Retrieved August 28, 2012. "Type Information: Codia montana Forster & G.Forster" 
  2. ↑ Barnes & Hill 1999.
  3. ↑ "The Plant List search for Codia". Retrieved August 28, 2012. 

References

  • 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 


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