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.

Caprivi: 11 cultivated taxa.

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Species	Content
bagshawei S.Moore
crassipes K. Schum.	Image
gardeniifolia Hochst. ex A. Rich.[Agg]	Description, Image
nitidula Hiern
oliveriana Hiern
pierlotii Bridson
rwandensis Bridson
schumanniana F. Hoffm. ex K. Schum.	Description, Image
ternifolia Hiern
troupinii Bridson
urundensis Bremek.

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

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Pavetta
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