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. Mozambique: 48 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| catophylla K. Schum. | GI,M | |
| chapmanii Bridson [NrEnd] | Z | |
| comostyla S. Moore subsp. comostyla var. inyangensis (Bremek.) Bridson [NrEnd] | MS | Description, Image |
| crassipes K. Schum. | N,Z,T,M | Image |
| curalicola J.E. Burrows [End] [LR-nt] | N | |
| decumbens K. Schum. [NrEnd] | N,Z,MS | Description, Image |
| dianeae J.E. Burrows [End] [DD] | N,Z | |
| edentula Sond. | M | |
| fascifolia Bremek. [DD] | N | |
| gardeniifolia Hochst. ex A. Rich. [Agg] | N,Z,T,MS | Description, Image |
| gardeniifolia Hochst. ex A. Rich. var. appendiculata (De WIld.) Bridson [End] | N,Z | Description |
| gardeniifolia Hochst. ex A. Rich. var. subtomentosa K.Schum. | N | Description |
| gardeniifolia Hochst. ex A. Rich. var. gardeniifolia | N,T,MS | Description |
| gerstneri Bremek. | GI,M | |
| gracilifolia Bremek. | M | |
| gracillima S.Moore [NrEnd] | MS,GI | Description, Image |
| gurueensis Bridson [End] | Z | |
| harborii S. Moore | GI | |
| hymenophylla Bremek. | Z | |
| incana Klotzsch [End] | T | |
| johnstonii Bremek. subsp. A | N | |
| johnstonii Bremek. subsp. johnstonii | N,Z | |
| klotzschiana K. Schum. [NrEnd] | N,Z,T,MS | Description, Image |
| lanceolata Eckl. | GI,M | |
| lindina Bremek. [NrEnd] [EN] | N | |
| lutambensis Bremek. | M | |
| macrosepala Hiern var. macrosepala | N | |
| micropunctata Bridson [NrEnd] | N | |
| mocambicensis Bremek. [End] | N | |
| pseudoalbicaulis Bridson | N | |
| pumila N.E. Br. [End] | MS | Description, Image |
| radicans Hiern | MS | Description, Image |
| refractifolia K. Schum. | N | |
| revoluta Hochst. | GI,M | |
| schumanniana F. Hoffm. ex K. Schum. | N,Z,T,MS | Description, Image |
| sp. A | Z | |
| sp. B | N,Z | |
| sp. D | M | |
| sp. E | Z | |
| sp. F | MS | |
| sp. I | N,MS | |
| sp. J of Burrows et Al.: 1008, 2018 | N | |
| stenosepala K. Schum. subsp. kisarawensis (Bremek.) Bridson | N | |
| tendagurensis Bremek. [NrEnd] | N | |
| umtalensis Bremek. [NrEnd] | MS | Description, Image |
| uniflora Bremek. | MS,GI | |
| vanwykiana Bridson [NrEnd] | M | |
| zeyheri Sond. |
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