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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Malvaceae
Pavonia

Citation: Cav., Diss. 3:132 (1787).

Derivation: After José Pavén, 1754-1844, a Spanish botanist and explorer in South America.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Softly woody perennials, densely stellate-tomentose; leaves lobed or not, toothed.

flowers bisexual, pedunculate, single in leaf axils, usually showy; cleistogamous flowers sometimes occurring; epicalyx of 5 segments free of one another but adnate to the base of the calyx; sepals fused below to form a broad-campanulate tube with 5 lobes; petals 5, large and brightly coloured; staminal tube long and narrow; carpels 5, in a single whorl; stigmas capitate, on 10 slender style branches; ovules 1 in each carpel.

fruit subglobular, 5-celled, separating in 5 usually indehiscent fruitlets (mericarps); seeds ascending.

Distribution:  About 200 species from the warmer parts of the world.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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