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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
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|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
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> wetland. <b>Rhizomes</b> horizontal. <b>Leaves</b> appearing before flowers, several, emergent, arising along rhizome, also clustered terminally; petiole 1.5–2 or more times as long as blade; blade bright green, simple, not peltate, ovate to nearly round, base cordate, apex short-acuminate to apiculate; lateral veins parallel. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncle erect, as long as or longer than petiole, apex not swollen; spathe white, often green or partially green abaxially, not enclosing spadix; spadix cylindric. <b>Flowers</b> all bisexual or distal ones staminate; perianth absent. <b>Fruits</b> not embedded in spadix, red. <b>Seeds</b> 4–9(–11), embedded in mucilage. <b>x</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|distribution=Circumboreal.
|discussion=<p>Numerous cytogenetic studies have been conducted on <i>Calla</i> 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
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