# Codia

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***Codia*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of trees and shrubs in the family [Cunoniaceae](/source/Cunoniaceae). The genus is endemic to [New Caledonia](/source/New_Caledonia) in the Pacific and contains 15 species.[2] The [leaves](/source/Leaf) are opposite or whorled, simple, and the margin usually entire. The [flowers](/source/Flower) 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](/source/Callicoma_serratifolia)*.[4]

## List of species

(all endemic to New Caledonia[2])

- *[Codia albicans](/source/Codia_albicans)*
- *[Codia albifrons](/source/Codia_albifrons)*
- *[Codia belepensis](/source/Codia_belepensis)*
- *[Codia discolor](/source/Codia_discolor)*
- *[Codia ferruginea](/source/Codia_ferruginea)*
- *[Codia fusca](/source/Codia_fusca)*
- *[Codia incrassata](/source/Codia_incrassata)*
- *[Codia jaffrei](/source/Codia_jaffrei)*
- *[Codia mackeeana](/source/Codia_mackeeana)*
- *[Codia microphylla](/source/Codia_microphylla)*
- *[Codia montana](/source/Codia_montana)*
- *[Codia nitida](/source/Codia_nitida)*
- *[Codia spatulata](/source/Codia_spatulata)*
- *[Codia triverticillata](/source/Codia_triverticillata)*
- *[Codia xerophila](/source/Codia_xerophila)*

## References

1. The genus *Codia*, and its [type](/source/Type_(biology)) (*C. montana*), were first described and published in *[Characteres Generum Plantarum](/source/Characteres_Generum_Plantarum)* in 1775. ["Plant Name Details for Genus *Codia*"](http://botany.si.edu/ing/), *Index Nominum Genericorum (ING)*, retrieved 7 January 2016 Type Information: *Codia montana* Forster & G.Forster

1. 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)

1. Barnes, Richard W. & Hill, Robert S. (1999), "Macrofossils of *Callicoma* and *Codia* (Cunoniaceae) from Australian Cainozoic sediments", *Australian Systematic Botany*. **12** (5): 647–670, [Bibcode:1999AuSyB..12..647B](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999AuSyB..12..647B). [doi:10.1071/SB98016](https://doi.org/10.1071/SB98016)

1. 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*"](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/23365#page/199/mode/1up), "Characteres generum plantarum, quas in itinere ad insulas maris Australis"
- Johann Reinhold Forster (1776), ["Octandria Digynia: 30. *Codia*"](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/23365#page/75/mode/1up), "Characteres generum plantarum, quas in itinere ad insulas maris Australis", pp. 59–60

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