Name | Podocalea Pruski |
Authorship | Pruski |
Rank | Genus |
Placed in | Asteraceae |
Contains | Podocalea rupicola (Chodat) Pruski Podocalea uniflora (Lessing) Pruski |
Remarks | Type: P. cuneifolia (DC.) Pruski (Basionym: Calea cuneifolia DC., 1836) Etymology: 'The prefix of the arbitrary formed generic name Podocalea is from the Greek noun podos for foot (Brown 1956: 620), and I use this prefix here in reference to the superficial caudex or underground xylopodium, found in most species...'. |
Citation | 2023 [6 Nov 2023] Phytoneuron 2023-42: 102 |