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Pentameris macrophylla

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Name

Identification
Pavonia kraussiana Hochst. [family MALVACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Schwartz, 1930 Pavonia macrophylla E. Meyer [family MALVACEAE ] Verified by HBG-formal name entry, 2008 Pentameris macrophylla E. Meyer [family MALVACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Pavonia macrophylla
  • Pavonia kraussiana
  • Pavonia patens
  • Pavonia burchellii
  • Pentameris macrophylla
  • Althaea kraussiana

Flora

Entry for PAVONIA macrophylla E. Mey. [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 157, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
PAVONIA macrophylla E. Mey. [family MALVACEAE], !
Pentameris macrophylla E. Mey. [family POACEAE], !
Pavonia Kraussiana Hochst. [family MALVACEAE], in Walp. Rep. 5. 90.
Pavonia acuminata Pl. [family MALVACEAE], Schimp.!
Pavonia crenata Hochst. [family MALVACEAE], Pl. Schimp.
Urena mollis Hochst. [family MALVACEAE], Pl. Schimp.
Information
stem and branches hispid with long, patent, stiff hairs; leaves on long hairy petioles, deeply cordate at base, 5- angled and somewhat 5- lobed, with shallow, rounded interspaces, coarsely crenato-dentate, laxly villous on the upper, stellato-pubescent on the lower surface; stipules linear; peduncles axillary, elongate, one-flowered; invol. of 5–6 broadly ovate, fringed, connate leaflets; calyx membranous, villous. Herbaceous, tall and free growing, more hairy than tomentose. Leaves 2–3 inches long, equally broad, and either angled or lobed, the terminal lobe acuminate. The upper leaves are sometimes ovate, acuminate. Flowers flesh-coloured or rosy. Invol. leaflets more or less united at base, and in one of Burke's specimens united into a monophyllous, 5-cleft involucel!
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Eastern districts and Port Natal, Zeyher! Drege! Krauss! Sand River and Macallisberg, Burke & Zeyher! (Herb. T.C.D., Hook.)
Notes
This plant is common to the warmer parts of the colony and to the country north and east of the frontier. It occurs also in Abyssinia, whence we have it under three different names! Anoda cordifolia, E. Mey.! in Herb. Drege, is another of its aliases.

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