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8383.000 Pavetta
Description of the genus
Shrubs or small trees, occasionally suffrutices. Leaves opposite; lamina with bacterial nodules (easily visible as black dots when leaf is held up to the light). Flowers few-many, borne in corymbs, very lax to capitate. Bracts connate, stipule-like. Flowers bisexual, 4-merous. Corolla white to creamy or greenish. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit a spherical drupe, in our species black and shining when ripe. Seeds 2, hemispheric. Derivation of name: Apparently this was a historic name given to plants of this genus in Malabar, a coastal region in southwestern India. Worldwide: 400 species in the Old World tropics. Caprivi: 6 taxa. |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Content |
| cataractarum S. Moore | Description, Image |
| gardeniifolia Hochst. ex A. Rich.[Agg] | Description, Image |
| gardeniifolia Hochst. ex A. Rich. var. gardeniifolia | Description |
| gardeniifolia Hochst. ex A. Rich. var. subtomentosa K.Schum. | Description |
| lasiopeplus K. Schum. | Description, Image |
| schumanniana F. Hoffm. ex K. Schum. | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Pavetta:
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Flora of Botswana: PavettaFlora of Burundi: Pavetta
Flora of Malawi: Pavetta
Flora of Mozambique: Pavetta
Flora of Zambia: Pavetta
Flora of Zimbabwe: Pavetta
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Pavetta
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): PavettaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Pavetta
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Pavetta
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Pavetta
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Pavetta
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Pavetta
JSTOR Plant Science: Pavetta
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Pavetta
Plants of the World Online: Pavetta
Tropicos: Pavetta
Wikipedia: Pavetta
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