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Pavetta uniflora

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Pavetta uniflora Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Plectronia sennii
  • Pavetta uniflora

Flora

Entry for PAVETTA uniflora Bremek. [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 uniflora Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE], (1933). Fig. 60.
Plectronia sennii Chiov. [family OLINIACEAE], (1932);. type: S3, “Jack Omisso”, Senni 479 (FT, holo.);
Pavetta sennii (Chiov.) Bridson [family RUBIACEAE], (1983), nom. illeg.
Information
Small tree or shrub 1.5–7 m tall; young branches glabrous. Leaves confined to very short spurs off the main and lateral branches; blades obovate, 1.2–4.8 × 0.45–1.8 cm, rounded or obtuse and often with a thick mucro at apex, glabrous; lateral nerves indistinct, in ± 3 main pairs; bacterial nodules dot-shaped to linear, very sparse to several, scattered; petiole 0–3 mm long; stipule-limbs with ± subulate up to 2 mm long tip, hairy at base within. Flowers solitary or occasionally paired, sessile on the leafy spurs. Calyx glabrous; limb-tube 1.8–2 mm long; lobes very narrowly triangular to linear, 4–9 x 1 mm. Corolla-tube 2.6–4.3 cm long, glabrous outside; lobes 4.5–6 × 2–3 mm, acute to acuminate. Fruit 5–6 mm in diam.
Range
S2, 3
Altitude range
50–130 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin 6354; Friis, Vollesen & Abdisalam Hassan 4920.
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Tanzania
Mozambique
Notes
The name Canthium sennii (Chiov.) Senni used in Cuf. Enum.: 1010 (1965) has not been validly published.

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