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Pavetta bowkeri

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Name

Identification
Pavetta bowkeri Harv. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Pavetta bowkeri
  • Pavetta gerrardii

Flora

Entry for PAVETTA Bowkeri Harv. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 3, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. SONDER).
Names
PAVETTA Bowkeri Harv. [family RUBIACEAE], Thes. t. 131
Information
twigs compressed, clothed with a very short bifarious pubescence; leaves oblong-lanceolate, tapering into a pubescent petiole, with recurved margins, quite glabrous above, tomentose beneath; corymbose panicle loosely trichotomous, glabrous; teeth of calyx 3–4 times longer than the tube, setaceous. Leaves 3–4 inches long, 1–1 1/2 inch broad, shortly acuminated into a bluntish point, penninerved, softly tomentose beneath; petiole 1/2 inch long. Stipules cuspidate or aristate. Panicle spreading; bracts very small. Calyx 3 lines long. Tube of the glabrous white corolla 1/2 inch, lobes 3 lines long, acute.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Mouth of Bashee R., Caffr., in swamps. Feb. H. Bowker, 459. (Hb. D., Sd.)

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