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Pavonia arabica

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Name

Identification
Pavonia erythraeae Chiov. [family MALVACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Pavonia arabica Hochst. & Steud. ex Boiss. [family MALVACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Pavonia arabica
  • Pavonia ervthraeae
  • Hibiscus microphyllus
  • Pavonia erythraeae
  • Pavonia pseudoarabica

Flora

Entry for PAVONIA arabica Hochst. & Steud. ex Boiss. [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
PAVONIA arabica Hochst. & Steud. ex Boiss. [family MALVACEAE], (1867). Fig. 40 A, B.
PAVONIA glandulosa Franch. [family MALVACEAE], (1882), nom. illeg.;. type: N3, without precise locality, Révoil 21 (P holo.).
PAVONIA franchetiana Schinz [family MALVACEAE], (1895);. type: N3, without precise locality, Révoil 21 (P holo.).
PAVONIA erythraeae Chiov. [family MALVACEAE], (1915).
PAVONIA pseudoarabica Mattei [family MALVACEAE], (1916);. type: S3, between “Haboba” and “Saco”, Paoli 537 (FT holo.).
PAVONIA erlangeri Ulbr. [family MALVACEAE], (1921).
PAVONIA arabica Ulbr. var. flavovelutina [family MALVACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 57: 161 (1921);. types from Eritrea and N2, “Serrut” Mt near “Meid”, Hildebrandt 1373 (B holo., destr.).
Information
Annual or usually perennial herb or shrublet, up to c. 1 m tall; vegetative parts pubescent to tomentose and sometimes glandular. Leaves with 0.5–5 cm long petiole; blade ovate to elliptic, c. 1.5–6 x 1–3.5 cm, cordate to rounded at the base, subacute to rounded or emarginate at the apex, with entire margins. Flowers solitary in leaf axils or in small axillary cymes; pedicels 2–30 mm long, articulated above the middle. Epicalyx bracts 9–14, 5–15 mm long in flower. Calyx 3–6 mm long, puberulous to tomentose and sometimes glandular. Petals 7–15 mm long, pink or rarely white. Mericarps 3–4.5 mm long, not or scarcely winged, tomentose to lanate on the back, subglabrous to densely puberulous on the sides.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3 East Africa,
Altitude range
150–1100 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Elmi 474; Kazmi, Elmi & Rodol 674; Thulin, Hedrén & Abdi Dahir 7610.
Distribution (external)
Socotra
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Sudan
Arabia
Pakistan
NW India
Notes
P. arabica is here taken in a broader sense than by Vollesen in Fl. Eth. 2(2): 232 (1995), who recognized P. erlangeri with larger flowers and less hairy sides of the mericarps. In Somalia there are forms agreeing with P. erlangeri, such as Thulin, Hedrén & Abdi Dahir 7610, but also various intermediates which make a subdivision untenable in my opinion.

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