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Pavonia meyeri

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Identification
Pavonia meyeri Mast. [family MALVACEAE ]
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  • Pavonia meyeri

Flora

Entry for PAVONIA Meyeri Mast. [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 175, (1868) Author: (by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters).
Names
PAVONIA Meyeri Mast. [family MALVACEAE]
PAVONIA mollis E. Mey. [family MALVACEAE], Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 169; nec H. B. K. Nov. Gen. v. 283.
Information
A much-branched, downy, herbaceous plant. Leaves on long stalks, roundish-subcordate, sub-3-cuspidate or even more deeply divided, crenate-dentate, downy on both surfaces, 5–7-nerved. Peduncles solitary, axillary, remote or crowded at the ends of the branches, shorter than the petioles, not jointed. Epicalyx of 5–6 ligulate bracts, shorter than the cup-shaped 5-parted calyx, whose lance-shaped segments are traversed by three prominent green nerves. Corolla pink. Fruit of 5 coherent, oblong, obtuse, 3-sided, woody carpels.
Distribution
Mozamb. Dist. Manganya hills, Dr. Meller!
Distribution (external)
Frequent in some parts of the Cape
Natal

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