Genus Calia Berland.


Summary
Genus number:
1880
Last updated:
1 August 2025
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Tribe:
Accession count:

0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System
Comments:
by binding decision, a confusable and illegitimate later parahomonym (Madrid ICN Art. 53.4 & App. VII) of Calea L. (1763) that is unavailable for use


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References:
  1. Barrie, F. R. 2011. Report of the General Committee: 11. Taxon 60:1213. Note: Committee recommends that this name be treated as homonym of Calea L. (1763)
  2. Brummitt, R. K. 2011. Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants: 62. Taxon 60:231-232. Note: Committee recommends that this name be treated as homonym of Calea L. (1763)
  3. Gandhi, K. N. et al. 2011. Dermatophyllum, the correct name for Calia (Fabaceae). Phytoneuron 2011-57:1-4.
  4. Lewis, G. et al., eds. 2005. Legumes of the world 233.
  5. Sousa S., M. & V. E. Rudd. 1993. Revisión del género Styphnolobium (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae: Sophoreae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 80:270-283.
  6. Yakovlev, G. P. 1968. The genus Calia Terán et Berl. (Sophoreae) in America. Trudy Leningradsk. Khim.-Farm. Inst. 26:104-112.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://npgstest.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomygenus?id=1880. Accessed 11 May 2026.