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Pavetta gardeniifolia

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Identification
Pavetta gardeniifolia A. Rich [family RUBIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Pavetta gardeniifolia Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Pavetta unrecorded
  • Pavetta heidelbergensis
  • Pavetta pleiantha
  • Pavetta longiflora
  • Pavetta rhodesiaca
  • Pavetta gardeniaefolia
  • Pavetta termitaria
  • Pavetta hochstetteri
  • Pavetta petraea
  • Pavetta gardeniifolia
  • Pavetta ovaliloba
  • Pavetta crassipes
  • Pavetta appendiculata
  • Gardenia somaliensis
  • Pavetta barteri
  • Pavetta herbacea
  • Pavetta assimilis
  • Pavetta tomentosa

Flora

Entry for PAVETTA gardeniifolia A. Rich. [family RUBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
PAVETTA gardeniifolia A. Rich. [family RUBIACEAE], (1847).
PAVETTA gardeniifolia Vatke var. breviflora [family RUBIACEAE], in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 25: 231 (1875);. types: Ethiopia and Somalia, N2, without precise locality, Hildebrandt 889 (B syn., destr.).
PAVETTA fossorum Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE], (1949);. types: N2, “Al Hills, Sugli”, Collenette 284 (K syn.), “Molidere”, Glover & Gilliland 569 (K syn.).
PAVETTA somaliensis Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE], (1949);. type: N1, “Gan Libah, Golis Range”, Glover & Gilliand 1160 (EA holo., BM K iso.).
Information
Shrub or small tree (0.6–)1.2–7 m tall; young branches glabrous to densely pubescent. Leaf-blades narrowly to broadly elliptic or oblanceolate to obovate, 1.6–12.5 × 1–6 cm, acute, obtuse, rounded or occasionally slightly emarginate at apex, glabrous to pubescent; lateral nerves in 5–8 main pairs; bacterial nodules dot-shaped to linear, scattered, usually several; petiole 1–20 mm long, glabrous to pubescent; stipule limbs subtruncate to triangular, 2–5 mm long, shortly acuminate, with silky hairs inside. Inflorescences borne on leafless spurs or short branches, or if these suppressed, then arising directly from main stems, moderately compact to very lax, 1.7–7 cm across (excl. corollas); primary branches 0.3–1.8(–2.5) cm long, glabrous to pubescent; secondary branches very short to ± equalling primary branches; tertiary branches occasionally present; pedicels 2–22 mm long, glabrous or pubescent. Flowers sweetly scented. Calyx-limb (0.25–)0.5–1.25 mm long, truncate, shallowly dentate or with short triangular lobes up to 1 mm long, glabrous or occasionally sparsely hairy. Corolla cream to bright yellow; tube 0.4–1.5 cm long, 1–2 mm wide at top, glabrous outside; lobes (3–)5–7 × 2–3 mm. Fruit 6–8 mm in diam. Buxus scrub or in forest, in shaded or exposed positions, often in rocky places or gullies in the north, Acacia-Commiphora bushland on red soil in the south; c. 230 m in the south, 1100–1600 m in he north. N1–3; S1; throughout tropical Africa, as far west as Togo, and southwards to South Africa. Bally 11832; Thulin & Warfa 6114; O’Brien 221. The material from Somalia has glabrous inflorescence-branches and pedicels and belongs to var. gardeniifolia. Var. subtomentosa K. Schum, with pubescent inflorescences, is widespread in Africa but absent from the north-eastern parts. The single collection seen from southern Somalia, O´Brien 221, has obovate leaves, whilst in the northern collections the leaves are narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate. The wood is strong and can be used, for example, for digging.
Notes
Bies, buran, eina quayeye, guro, gotimah-somih, kalahailye, medanya (Som.).

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