Pavetta
Encyclopedia
Pavetta is a genus
of flowering plant
s in the Rubiaceae
family
. 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
s.
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.
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)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
. 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 axilliparaPavetta axilliparaPavetta 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 brachycalyxPavetta brachycalyxPavetta 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 holstiiPavetta holstiiPavetta 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 SchumannKarl 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 LinnaeusCarl 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 intermediaPavetta intermediaPavetta 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 kupensisPavetta kupensisPavetta 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 lasiocladaPavetta lasiocladaPavetta 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 linearifoliaPavetta linearifoliaPavetta 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 lynesiiPavetta lynesiiPavetta 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 manyanguensisPavetta manyanguensisPavetta 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 mollissimaPavetta mollissimaPavetta 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 monticolaPavetta monticolaPavetta 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 muirianaPavetta muirianaPavetta 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 nitidissimaPavetta nitidissimaPavetta 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 rubentifoliaPavetta rubentifoliaPavetta 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 sparsipilaPavetta sparsipilaPavetta 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 tarennoidesPavetta tarennoidesPavetta 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 BurkholderiaBurkholderia
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.