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PAVETTA pammalaka Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 pammalaka Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE], (1949);. type: N2, NW face of Mt “Sarud Ad”, Glover & Gilliland 944 (K holo., BM iso.).
Information
Evergreen shrub or bushy tree 2–3 m tall; young stems covered with short velvety hairs. Leaf-blades narrowly elliptic, up to 9´2.4 cm, acute at apex, attenuate at base so that change to petiole not clear, recurved at margins, leathery, with scattered short hairs above and whitish finely velvety pubescence beneath; bacterial nodules dark above; lateral nerves in 7–9 main pairs; stipule limbs 1–1.5 mm long, triangular-truncate, with c. 1–4 mm long tip. Inflorescences 20–50-flowered, corymbose, 3.2–5.7 cm across, excluding corollas; primary branches 5–20 mm long, pubescent; secondary and sometimes tertiary branches present; pedicels 1.75–3 mm long, pubescent. Calyx-limb c. 1 mm long, divided to the middle into triangular lobes, pubescent. Corolla-tube 12–14 mm long; lobes 6´1.25 mm. Fruit c. 6 mm in diam.
Range
N2 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
800–915 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 10320; Hemming 1965.
Notes
Ged urgi (Som.).Said to be poisonous, especially to camels, but information conflicting.

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 pammalaka Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE], (1949);. type: N2, NW face of Mt “Sarud Ad”, Glover & Gilliland 944 (K holo., BM iso.).
Information
Evergreen shrub or bushy tree 2–3 m tall; young stems covered with short velvety hairs. Leaf-blades narrowly elliptic, up to 9´2.4 cm, acute at apex, attenuate at base so that change to petiole not clear, recurved at margins, leathery, with scattered short hairs above and whitish finely velvety pubescence beneath; bacterial nodules dark above; lateral nerves in 7–9 main pairs; stipule limbs 1–1.5 mm long, triangular-truncate, with c. 1–4 mm long tip. Inflorescences 20–50-flowered, corymbose, 3.2–5.7 cm across, excluding corollas; primary branches 5–20 mm long, pubescent; secondary and sometimes tertiary branches present; pedicels 1.75–3 mm long, pubescent. Calyx-limb c. 1 mm long, divided to the middle into triangular lobes, pubescent. Corolla-tube 12–14 mm long; lobes 6´1.25 mm. Fruit c. 6 mm in diam.
Range
N2 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
800–915 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 10320; Hemming 1965.
Notes
Ged urgi (Som.).Said to be poisonous, especially to camels, but information conflicting.

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 pammalaka Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE], (1949);. type: N2, NW face of Mt “Sarud Ad”, Glover & Gilliland 944 (K holo., BM iso.).
Information
Evergreen shrub or bushy tree 2–3 m tall; young stems covered with short velvety hairs. Leaf-blades narrowly elliptic, up to 9´2.4 cm, acute at apex, attenuate at base so that change to petiole not clear, recurved at margins, leathery, with scattered short hairs above and whitish finely velvety pubescence beneath; bacterial nodules dark above; lateral nerves in 7–9 main pairs; stipule limbs 1–1.5 mm long, triangular-truncate, with c. 1–4 mm long tip. Inflorescences 20–50-flowered, corymbose, 3.2–5.7 cm across, excluding corollas; primary branches 5–20 mm long, pubescent; secondary and sometimes tertiary branches present; pedicels 1.75–3 mm long, pubescent. Calyx-limb c. 1 mm long, divided to the middle into triangular lobes, pubescent. Corolla-tube 12–14 mm long; lobes 6´1.25 mm. Fruit c. 6 mm in diam.
Range
N2 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
800–915 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 10320; Hemming 1965.
Notes
Ged urgi (Som.).Said to be poisonous, especially to camels, but information conflicting.
PAVETTA pammalaka Bremek. [family RUBIACEAE]
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