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|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=
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--><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><!--

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|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>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=dudley1937a
|text=Dudley, M. G. 1937. Morphological and cytological studies of Calla palustris. Bot. Gaz. 98: 556--571.
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|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.
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|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.
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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=
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|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
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