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]
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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)
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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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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.
External links
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