# Podocalea

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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|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](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online) |publisher=[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew](/source/Royal_Botanic_Gardens%2C_Kew) |access-date=29 June 2025}}</ref>
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'''''Podocalea''''' is a genus of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s in the family [Asteraceae](/source/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](/source/Paran%C3%A1_River), with some native to the [Tocantins River](/source/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](/source/Calea_(plant))'' 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](/source/Podocalea_abbreviata)'' {{small|(Pruski & Urbatsch) Pruski}}
*''[Podocalea angustifolia](/source/Podocalea_angustifolia)'' {{small|(Gardner) Pruski}}
*''[Podocalea asclepiifolia](/source/Podocalea_asclepiifolia)'' {{small|(Hassl.) Pruski}}
*''[Podocalea bakeriana](/source/Podocalea_bakeriana)'' {{small|(Chodat) Pruski}}
*''[Podocalea cabrerae](/source/Podocalea_cabrerae)'' {{small|(Pruski) Pruski}}
*''[Podocalea camporum](/source/Podocalea_camporum)'' {{small|(Krasch.) Pruski}}
*''[Podocalea catalaonensis](/source/Podocalea_catalaonensis)'' {{small|(Krasch.) Pruski}}
*''[Podocalea cuneifolia](/source/Podocalea_cuneifolia)'' {{small|(DC.) Pruski}}
*''[Podocalea formosa](/source/Podocalea_formosa)'' {{small|(Chodat) Pruski}}
*''[Podocalea multiplinervia](/source/Podocalea_multiplinervia)'' {{small|(Less.) Pruski}}
*''[Podocalea oligocephala](/source/Podocalea_oligocephala)'' {{small|(DC.) Pruski}}
*''[Podocalea paraguayensis](/source/Podocalea_paraguayensis)'' {{small|(Kuntze) Pruski}}
*''[Podocalea pedunculosa](/source/Podocalea_pedunculosa)'' {{small|(DC.) Pruski}}
*''[Podocalea pohliana](/source/Podocalea_pohliana)'' {{small|(Sch.Bip. ex Baker) Pruski}}
*''[Podocalea rupicola](/source/Podocalea_rupicola)'' {{small|(Chodat) Pruski}}
*''[Podocalea tomentosa](/source/Podocalea_tomentosa)'' {{small|(Gardner) Pruski}}
*''[Podocalea uniflora](/source/Podocalea_uniflora)'' {{small|(Less.) Pruski}}
*''[Podocalea verticillata](/source/Podocalea_verticillata)'' {{small|(Klatt) Pruski}}

==References==
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Category:Neurolaeneae
Category:Asteraceae genera
Category:Flora of Southern America
Category:Taxa described in 2023

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