8383.000 Pavetta L.

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.

Zambia: 18 taxa.

Pavetta schumanniana

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsProvincesContent
cataractarum S. MooreB,N,W,C,E,SCb,N,Mc,E,Lk,S,WDescription, Image
crassipes K. Schum.N,C,E,SN,Mc,E,C,Lk,SImage
eylesii S.MooreNNDescription, Image
gardeniifolia Hochst. ex A. Rich.[Agg]B,N,W,E,SNw,Cb,N,E,C,S,WDescription, Image
gardeniifolia Hochst. ex A. Rich. var. gardeniifolia B,N,W,E,SNw,Cb,N,E,SDescription
gardeniifolia Hochst. ex A. Rich. var. subtomentosa K.Schum.B,N,W,SCb,N,C,WDescription
incana Klotzsch
johnstonii Bremek. subsp. breviloba Bridson [VU]NMc
lasiopeplus K. Schum.SSDescription, Image
nitidula Hiern B,N,WNw,N,Mc
pygmaea Bremek. [DD]B,WNw
radicans HiernN,W,C,E,SCb,N,C,Lk,SDescription, Image
redheadii Bremek. [VU]W
schumanniana F. Hoffm. ex K. Schum.N,W,C,SNw,Cb,N,Lk,SDescription, Image
sp. G NN
sp. H B,WW
subumbellata Bremek. var. subumbellata [VU]EMc
whiteana Bridson NN,Mc

Other sources of information about Pavetta:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Pavetta
Flora of Burundi: Pavetta
Flora of Caprivi: Pavetta
Flora of Malawi: Pavetta
Flora of Mozambique: Pavetta
Flora of Zimbabwe: Pavetta
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Pavetta

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Pavetta
BHL (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

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Pavetta.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1410, retrieved 21 November 2024

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