Pavonia Cav.
Details
Biostatus
Nomenclature
Cav.
Cav.
1786
ICN
Pavonia Cav.
genus
Pavonia
Classification
Descriptions
Pavonia Cav.
Annual to perennial herbs or shrubs. Lvs usually angled or lobed. Fls axillary and solitary, or in infls with reduced lvs; epicalyx segments 5 or more, united in part or free; calyx evenly 5-toothed; petals spreading or closed. Style branches twice as many as loculi, clavate. Fr. of 5, 1-seeded, indehiscent, sometimes awned mericarps arranged in a single flat whorl and separating from axis at maturity.
Taxonomic concepts
Metadata
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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
26 September 2008