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Pavonia tomentosa

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Pavonia tomentosa Hochst. ex Ulbr. [family MALVACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Pavonia urens Cav. [family MALVACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Pavonia tomentosa
  • Pavonia schimperiana
  • Pavonia urens

Flora

Entry for PAVONIA Schimperiana Hochst. [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 Schimperiana Hochst. [family MALVACEAE], in Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 52. —Walp. Ann. ii. 140.
PAVONIA tomentosa Hochst. [family MALVACEAE], Pl. Schimp. Abyss.
Information
A villose or tomentose, erect perennial or undershrub, 3–4 ft. high. Stalks of the lower leaves as long as the blades; upper ones shorter; leaf-blades cordate, palmately 5–7-lobed; lobes lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely serrate, smooth or very downy. Peduncles shorter than the petioles, aggregated in the axils of the leaves. Epicalyx of 10–12 linear ciliolate segments. Calyx bell-shaped, 5-cleft; segments lanceolate, 3-nerved, shorter than the epicalyx. Carpels 5, 1-seeded, indehiscent, somewhat woody, obtuse, 3-gonous, with 3 long erect awns, clothed with reflexed hairs and projecting beyond the calyx.
Distribution
Mozamb. Dist. Chiradzura mountains, Dr. Meller!Abyssinia Nile Land Salt! Pearce! Schimper! Roth! Parkyns!Nile Land Karague hills, Speke and Grant!
Notes
The plant varies considerably in the proportional size of its leaves, in the more or less dense covering of hairs, and in the remoteness or approximation of its flowers. Specimens gathered on the hills are much more downy than those collected on lower ground. Garcke inclines to the opinion that the two forms here united (as also by Richard) are distinct. He also considers the tomentose form to be identical with P. urens, of Cavanilles, a point not readily determined without seeing authentic specimens.

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