''Pavetta'' is a

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Rubiaceae The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules a ...

. 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 corymbs or cymes.Encyclopaedia of Garden Plants, C. Brickell, 1996, London, Royal Horticultural Society, .

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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 p ...

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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 p ...

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'' 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 The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that a ...

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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 sid ...

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Pavetta brachycalyx ''Pavetta brachycalyx'' is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that a ...

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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 The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

'' * '' Pavetta kupensis'' * '' Pavetta lasioclada'' * '' Pavetta linearifolia'' * '' Pavetta lynesii'' * '' Pavetta manyanguensis'' * '' Pavetta mollissima'' * '' Pavetta monticola'' * '' Pavetta muiriana'' * '' Pavetta nitidissima'' * '' Pavetta rubentifolia'' * '' Pavetta schumanniana'' * '' Pavetta sparsipila'' * '' Pavetta tarennoides''

Pictures

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'' File:Pavetta crassicaulis flowers in Hyderabad W IMG 8710.jpg, '' Pavetta crassicaulis'' File:Pavetta crassicaulis flower buds in Hyderabad W IMG 8707.jpg, '' Pavetta crassicaulis'' File:Pavetta indica 03.JPG, ''

'' File:Pavetta lanceolata, vrugte, a, Walter Sisulu NBT.jpg, '' Pavetta lanceolata'' File:Pavetta tomentosa W IMG_2868.jpg, '' Pavetta tomentosa''

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