{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |taxon = Podocalea |authority = Pruski |display_parents = 3 |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = 18; see text |subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>{{cite web |title=''Podocalea'' Pruski |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77335959-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=29 June 2025}}</ref> }}
'''''Podocalea''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It includes 18 species native to South America, ranging from northern Brazil to Bolivia and Northeastern Argentina.<ref name = powo/> They are perennial herbs or cymose-capitulate subshrubs, with proximally disposed opposite leaves and typically with few stems. Species are mostly native to the basin of the Paraná River, with some native to the Tocantins River basin of Amazonia.<ref name = Pruski>Pruski, J.F. 2023. The new genera ''Laceanthos'', ''Podocalea'', ''Tepuipappus'', the resurrected genera ''Lemmatium'', ''Meyeria'', ''Tonalanthus'', and other novelties in the ''Calea'' Alliance I. ''Phytoneuron'' 2023-42: 1–171. Published 6 November 2023. ISSN 2153-733X</ref>
The species were formerly placed in genus ''Calea'' section ''Monanthocalea''. In 2023 John F. Pruski placed them in the new genus ''Podocalea''.<ref name = Pruski/>
==Species== 18 species are accepted.<ref name = powo/> *''Podocalea abbreviata'' {{small|(Pruski & Urbatsch) Pruski}} *''Podocalea angustifolia'' {{small|(Gardner) Pruski}} *''Podocalea asclepiifolia'' {{small|(Hassl.) Pruski}} *''Podocalea bakeriana'' {{small|(Chodat) Pruski}} *''Podocalea cabrerae'' {{small|(Pruski) Pruski}} *''Podocalea camporum'' {{small|(Krasch.) Pruski}} *''Podocalea catalaonensis'' {{small|(Krasch.) Pruski}} *''Podocalea cuneifolia'' {{small|(DC.) Pruski}} *''Podocalea formosa'' {{small|(Chodat) Pruski}} *''Podocalea multiplinervia'' {{small|(Less.) Pruski}} *''Podocalea oligocephala'' {{small|(DC.) Pruski}} *''Podocalea paraguayensis'' {{small|(Kuntze) Pruski}} *''Podocalea pedunculosa'' {{small|(DC.) Pruski}} *''Podocalea pohliana'' {{small|(Sch.Bip. ex Baker) Pruski}} *''Podocalea rupicola'' {{small|(Chodat) Pruski}} *''Podocalea tomentosa'' {{small|(Gardner) Pruski}} *''Podocalea uniflora'' {{small|(Less.) Pruski}} *''Podocalea verticillata'' {{small|(Klatt) Pruski}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Neurolaeneae Category:Asteraceae genera Category:Flora of Southern America Category:Taxa described in 2023