Pavetta lasiopeplus K. Schum.

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Synonyms:	Pavetta inconspicua Dinter ex Bremek. Pavetta microlancea sensu Good non K. Schum. Pavetta zeyheri sensu Kok & Grobbelaar, p.p.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Hairless small shrub up to 2 m tall. Leaves clustered on short lateral spurs or spaced along young twigs, sessile, narrowly obovate, oblanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 2–6.3 cm long; domatia absent; bacterial nodules few to many but sometimes absent, dot-like or elliptical, scattered; stipules on young twigs with truncate limb 1–2 mm long and apiculum 1–1.5 mm long. Inflorescence-supporting branches up to 3.5 cm long, slender, leafless or occasionally bearing short lateral spurs. Inflorescences, 8–13 mm wide excluding corollas; pedicels 0.8–4 mm long; bracts up to 3.5 mm long, densely covered with silky white hairs inside. Calyx lobes linear-lanceolate, linear-triangular or strap-shape, 2–3 mm long, 0.6–1 mm wide at the base, spreading when mature. Corolla white, greenish-white or yellowish-white; hairless outside; tube 6–9 mm long, not bearded at the throat; lobes more or less narrowly oblong-ovate, 4–6 mm long. Fruit 5–6 mm in diameter, crowned by calyx limb with spreading lobes, black when ripe.
Notes:	This species was long included as part of Pavetta zeyheri Sond. but that species is now considered to be restricted Southeastern Botswana and South Africa. The distributions of the two taxa do not overlap.
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Habitat:	In mixed or mopane woodland and deciduous thickets on Kalahari sand, usually in sandy soils or sometimes on clay soils, often near rivers.
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia.
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Content last updated:	Saturday 17 March 2018
Literature:	Bridson, D.M. & Verdcourt, B. (2003). Rubiaceae, Part 3 Flora Zambesiaca 5(3) Pages 583 - 584. Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 1124. Included under Pavetta zeyheri Curtis, B.A. & Mannheimer, C.A. (2005). Tree Atlas of Namibia National Botanic Research Institute, Windhoek Pages 624 - 625. included in Pavetta zeyheri Mannheimer, C. & Curtis B. (2009). Le Roux and Müller's Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of Namibia Macmillan Education, Windhoek, Namibia. Pages 472 - 473. as Pavetta zeyheri p.p. (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 73. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 90. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 98. included in Pavetta zeyheri

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