View source for Calla ← Calla You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Calla |accepted_authority=Linnaeus |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Sp. Pl. |place=2: 968. 1753; Gen. Pl. ed. 5; 414, 1754 |year=1754 }} |common_names=Water arum arum;wild calla |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Araceae;Calla |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Araceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Calla]]</div></div> |etymology=a plant name used by Pliny, perhaps from Greek kallos, beauty |volume=Volume 22 |mention_page= |treatment_page= }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism growth form"><b>Herbs,</b> wetland.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="rhizome orientation"><b>Rhizomes </b>horizontal.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf quantity;leaf location;leaf orientation;leaf arrangement or growth form"><b>Leaves </b>appearing before flowers, several, emergent, arising along rhizome, also clustered terminally;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="petiole quantity">petiole 1.5–2 or more times as long as blade;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade coloration;blade architecture;blade architecture;blade shape;base shape;apex shape">blade bright green, simple, not peltate, ovate to nearly round, base cordate, apex short-acuminate to apiculate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="lateral-vein arrangement">lateral-veins parallel.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="peduncle orientation;petiole length or size;petiole length or size;apex shape"><b>Inflorescences:</b> peduncle erect, as long as or longer than petiole, apex not swollen;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="spathe coloration;spathe coloration;spathe coloration">spathe white, often green or partially green abaxially, not enclosing spadix;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="spadix shape">spadix cylindric.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="flower reproduction;distal flower architecture"><b>Flowers </b>all bisexual or distal ones staminate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="perianth presence">perianth absent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="fruit coloration"><b>Fruits </b>not embedded in spadix, red.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties=""><b>Seeds </b>4–9 (–11), embedded in mucilage.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="seed atypical quantity;seed quantity;x chromosome quantity">x = 18.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Circumboreal |discussion=<p>Numerous cytogenetic studies have been conducted on Calla with both diploid (2n = 36) and apparently tetraploid (2n = 72) populations reported (see G. Petersen 1989). All counts from North American populations counted have a somatic number of 36 chromosomes.</p><!-- --><p>Species 1.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=dudley1937a |text=Dudley, M. G. 1937. Morphological and cytological studies of Calla palustris. Bot. Gaz. 98: 556--571. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=lehmann1992a |text=Lehmann, N. L. and R. Sattler. 1992. Irregular floral development in Calla palustris (Araceae) and the concept of homeosis. Amer. J. Bot. 79: 1145--1157. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=scribailo1992a |text=Scribailo, R. W. and P. B. Tomlinson. 1992. Shoot and floral development in Calla palustris. Int. J. Pl. Sci. 153: 1--13. }} }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Calla |authority=Linnaeus |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Araceae |distribution=Circumboreal |reference=dudley1937a;lehmann1992a;scribailo1992a |publication title=Sp. Pl. |publication year=1754 |special status= |source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/62857cf6bca5c4637d27b113da92d27dbf9962f4/V22/V22_376.xml |genus=Calla |apex shape=not swollen;short-acuminate;apiculate |base shape=cordate |blade architecture=not peltate;simple |blade coloration=bright green |blade shape=ovate;nearly round |distal flower architecture=staminate |flower reproduction=bisexual |fruit coloration=red |lateral-vein arrangement=parallel |leaf arrangement or growth form=clustered |leaf location=emergent |leaf orientation=arising |leaf quantity=several |peduncle orientation=erect |perianth presence=absent |petiole length or size=longer;longer |petiole quantity=1.5;2 |rhizome orientation=horizontal |seed atypical quantity=9;11 |seed quantity=4;9 |spadix shape=cylindric |spathe coloration=green;green;white |whole_organism growth form=herb |x chromosome quantity=18 }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Araceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Araceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Calla.