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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Callisia
|accepted_authority=Loefling
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Iter Hispanicum
|place=305. 1758
|year=1758
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cuthbertia
|authority=Small
|rank=genus
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Leiandra
|authority=Rafinesque
|rank=genus
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Phyodina
|authority=Rafinesque
|rank=genus
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tradescantella
|authority=Small
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Commelinaceae;Callisia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Commelinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Callisia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek kallos, beauty, referring to the attractive leaves
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial or rarely annual. <b>Roots</b> thin, rarely tuberous. <b>Leaves</b> spirally arranged or 2-ranked; blade sessile. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and/or axillary, cyme pairs (often aggregated into larger spikelike or paniclelike units), cymes sessile, umbel-like, contracted, subtended by bracts; bracts inconspicuous, less than 1 cm; spathaceous bracts absent; bracteoles persistent. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual (bisexual and pistillate in <i>C. repens</i>), radially symmetric; pedicels very short or well developed; sepals distinct, subequal; petals distinct, white or pink to rose [rarely blue], equal, not clawed; stamens 6 or 0–3, all fertile, equal; filaments glabrous or bearded; ovary 2–3-locular, ovules [1–]2 per locule, 1-seriate. <b>Capsules</b> 2–3-valved, 2–3-locular. <b>Seeds</b> [1-]2 per locule; hilum punctiform; embryotega abaxial. <b>x</b> = 6–8.</span><!--

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|distribution=se United States;tropical America;major center of distribution in Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 20 (7 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=anderson1935a
|text=Anderson, E. and R. E. Woodson Jr. 1935. The species of Tradescantia indigenous to the United States. Contr. Arnold Arbor. 9: 1--132.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=lakela1972a
|text=Lakela, O. 1972. Field observations of Cuthbertia (Commelinaceae) with description of a new form. Sida 5: 26--32.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Flowers white, filaments glabrous; plants creeping, or ascending and stoloniferous.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Flowers pink to rose, filaments bearded; plants erect to ascending, or creeping.
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Robust, stoloniferous plants to 1 m; leaves oblong to lanceolate-oblong, 15–30 cm; flowers fragrant
|[[Callisia fragrans|Callisia fragrans]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Weak, mat-forming plants; leaves lanceolate to ovate, 1–3.5 cm; flowers odorless.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Inflorescences sessile in distal leaf axils; flowers sessile or subsessile; petals inconspicuous; stamens 0–6; ovary and capsule 2-locular
|[[Callisia repens|Callisia repens]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Inflorescences pedunculate; flowers distinctly pedicellate; petals conspicuous; stamens 6; ovary and capsule 3-locular
|[[Callisia cordifolia|Callisia cordifolia]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Plants creeping; leaves oblong-elliptic to lanceolate-oblong, 1–3.5 cm
|[[Callisia micrantha|Callisia micrantha]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Plants erect to ascending; leaves linear, mainly 5–25 cm.
|[[#key-0-5| > 5]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Distal leaf blades as wide as opened, flattened sheaths or wider, 0.4–1.5 cm wide
|[[Callisia rosea|Callisia rosea]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Distal leaf blades much narrower than opened, flattened sheaths, 0.1–0.5 mm wide.
|[[#key-0-6| > 6]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Plants not cespitose or scarcely so; roots persistently woolly; bracts usually minute, scarious, 1–3(–7) mm
|[[Callisia ornata|Callisia ornata]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Plants cespitose; roots glabrous to sparsely puberulent; bracts often elongate, ± herbaceous, 2–14 mm
|[[Callisia graminea|Callisia graminea]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Callisia
|authority=Loefling
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Cuthbertia;Leiandra;Phyodina;Tradescantella
|basionyms=
|family=Commelinaceae
|distribution=se United States;tropical America;major center of distribution in Mexico.
|reference=anderson1935a;lakela1972a
|publication title=Iter Hispanicum
|publication year=1758
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_344.xml
|genus=Callisia
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