Pavetta
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Pavetta is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

s in the Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae is a family of flowering plants, variously called the coffee family, madder family, or bedstraw family. The group contains many commonly known plants, including the economically important coffee , quinine , and gambier , and the horticulturally valuable madder , west indian jasmine ,...

 family
Family (biology)
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. It comprises about 350 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 small black glands. Pavetta has small, white, tubular flowers, sometimes salviform or funnel-shaped with 4 spreading petal lobes. The flowers are carried on terminal corymbs or cyme
Cyme
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Species

It contains the following species but this list is incomplete:
  • Pavetta axillipara
    Pavetta axillipara
    Pavetta axillipara is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to Tanzania.-Source:* Lovett, J. & Clarke, G.P. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....

    Bremek.
  • Pavetta brachycalyx
    Pavetta brachycalyx
    Pavetta brachycalyx is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:...

    Hiern
  • Pavetta holstii
    Pavetta holstii
    Pavetta holstii is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to Tanzania.-Source:* Lovett, J. & Clarke, G.P. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....

    K.Schum.
    Karl Moritz Schumann
    Karl Moritz Schumann was a German botanist.Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museumin Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894...

     ex Engl.
  • Pavetta hongkongensis Bremek.
  • Pavetta indica L.
    Carolus Linnaeus
    Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

  • Pavetta intermedia
    Pavetta intermedia
    Pavetta intermedia is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.-Source:* Makerere University Institute of Environment and Natural Resources 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....

    Bremek
  • Pavetta kupensis
    Pavetta kupensis
    Pavetta kupensis is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes.-Source:* Cheek. M. 2004. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....

    S.D.Manning
  • Pavetta lasioclada
    Pavetta lasioclada
    Pavetta lasioclada is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Togo. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Hawthorne, W. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....

    (K.Krause) Mildbr. ex Bremek.
  • Pavetta linearifolia
    Pavetta linearifolia
    Pavetta linearifolia is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in Kenya and Tanzania.-Source:* Lovett, J. & Clarke, G.P. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....

    Bremek.
  • Pavetta lynesii
    Pavetta lynesii
    Pavetta lynesii is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to Tanzania.-Source:* Lovett, J. & Clarke, G.P. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....

    Bridson
  • Pavetta manyanguensis
    Pavetta manyanguensis
    Pavetta manyanguensis is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to Tanzania.-Source:* Lovett, J. & Clarke, G.P. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....

    Bridson
  • Pavetta mollissima
    Pavetta mollissima
    Pavetta mollissima is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in Ghana and possibly Ivory Coast. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:* Hawthorne, W. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....

    Hutch. & Dalziel
  • Pavetta monticola
    Pavetta monticola
    Pavetta monticola is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is found in Equatorial Guinea and São Tomé and Príncipe.-Source:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....

    Hiern
  • Pavetta muiriana
    Pavetta muiriana
    Pavetta muiriana is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:...

    S.D.Manning
  • Pavetta nitidissima
    Pavetta nitidissima
    Pavetta nitidissima is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to Tanzania.-Source:* Lovett, J. & Clarke, G.P. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....

    Bridson
  • Pavetta rubentifolia
    Pavetta rubentifolia
    Pavetta rubentifolia is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Source:...

    S.D.Manning
  • Pavetta sparsipila
    Pavetta sparsipila
    Pavetta sparsipila is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to Tanzania.-Source:* Lovett, J. & Clarke, G.P. 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....

    Bremek.
  • Pavetta tarennoides
    Pavetta tarennoides
    Pavetta tarennoides is a species of plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is endemic to Kenya.-Source:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 23 August 2007....

    S.Moore


Gousiekte

Two Pavetta species, P. schummaniana and P. harborii, harbor endophytic Burkholderia
Burkholderia
Burkholderia is a genus of proteobacteria probably best known for its pathogenic members:Burkholderia mallei, responsible for glanders, a disease that occurs mostly in horses and related animals;...

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.
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