''Pavetta'' is a

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Rubiaceae. It comprises about 360 species of trees, evergreen shrubs and sub-shrubs. It is found in woodlands, grasslands and thickets in sub-tropical and tropical Africa and Asia. The plants are cultivated for their simple but variable leaves, usually opposite but also occur in triple whorls. The leaves are often membranous with dark bacterial nodules. ''Pavetta'' has small, white, tubular flowers, sometimes salviform or funnel-shaped with 4 spreading petal lobes. The flowers are carried on terminal

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Gousiekte

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Pavetta harborii ''Pavetta'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It comprises about 360 species of trees, evergreen shrubs and sub-shrubs. It is found in woodlands, grasslands and thickets in sub-tropical and tropical Africa and Asia. The plan ...

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Pavetta schummaniana ''Pavetta'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It comprises about 360 species of trees, evergreen shrubs and sub-shrubs. It is found in woodlands, grasslands and thickets in sub-tropical and tropical Africa and Asia. The plan ...

'', harbor endophytic '' Burkholderia'' bacteria in visible leaf nodules and are known to cause gousiekte, a cardiotoxicosis of ruminants characterised by heart failure four to eight weeks after ingestion of certain rubiaceous plants.

Species

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Pavetta axillipara ''Pavetta axillipara'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is Endemism, endemic to Tanzania. References

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Pavetta blanda ''Pavetta blanda'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae, native to the Laccadive Islands, south India and Sri Lanka. References blanda The Blanda () is a river in Iceland which flows northwards from the northwest side ...

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Pavetta brachycalyx ''Pavetta brachycalyx'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habit ...

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Pavetta capensis ''Pavetta capensis'', the Cape bride's bush, is a species of plant that was first described by Martinus Houttuyn, and given its current name by Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp. ''Pavetta capensis'' is part of the genus ''Pavetta'' and the family ...

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Pavetta gleniei ''Pavetta gleniei'' is a plant commonly found in Sri Lanka. References * http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-148503 * https://www.gbif.org/species/109307334 * http://plants.jstor.org/specimen/k000763414 gleniei Flora of Sri Lanka

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Pavetta holstii ''Pavetta holstii'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the Africa ...

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Pavetta indica ''Pavetta indica'' is a plant commonly found in South and Southeast Asia, including in India, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Medicinal uses The entire plant used medicinally as a bitter tonic, diuretic, inflammation, rheumatism, jaundice and ulcer. ...

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Pavetta intermedia ''Pavetta intermedia'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. References intermedia Intermedia is an art theory term coined in the mid-1960s by Fluxus artist Dick H ...

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Pavetta kimberleyana ''Pavetta kimberleyana'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is native to northern Australia where it is largely restricted to the Kimberley region of north-western Western Australia. Description It grows as a shrub or small tree ...

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Pavetta kupensis ''Pavetta kupensis'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forest Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate ...

'' * '' Pavetta lasioclada'' * '' Pavetta linearifolia'' * ''

Pavetta lynesii ''Pavetta lynesii'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the Afric ...

'' * '' Pavetta manyanguensis'' * '' Pavetta mollissima'' * '' Pavetta monticola'' * ''

Pavetta muiriana ''Pavetta muiriana'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat ...

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Pavetta rubentifolia ''Pavetta rubentifolia'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by hab ...

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Pavetta schumanniana ''Pavetta schumanniana'', the poison bride's bush, is a species of plant described by F.Hoffm. and Karl Moritz Schumann. ''Pavetta schumanniana'' is part of the genus ''Pavetta'' and the family Rubiaceae The Rubiaceae are a family of flower ...

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Pavetta sparsipila ''Pavetta sparsipila'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae, endemic to Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African ...

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Pavetta tarennoides ''Pavetta tarennoides'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Kenya ) , national_anthem = "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , cap ...

Pictures

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Pavetta crassicaulis ''Pavetta'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It comprises about 360 species of trees, evergreen shrubs and sub-shrubs. It is found in woodlands, grasslands and thickets in sub-tropical and tropical Africa and Asia. The pla ...

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References

External links

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World Checklist of Rubiaceae
{{Taxonbar, from=Q576868 Rubiaceae genera Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Taxonomy articles created by Polbot