Pavonia revoluta Krapov. & Cristóbal

  • Authority

    Fryxell, Paul A. 1999. Cavanilles (Malvaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 76: 1-284. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Malvaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Pavonia revoluta Krapov. & Cristóbal

  • Type

    Type. Argentina. Córdoba: Dept. Colón, Jesús Maria, La Toma, Meyer 13033 (holotype, LIL-n.v.).

  • Description

    Species Description - Shrubs 1.5 m tall, the stems minutely pubescent with stellate subarachnoid hairs. Leaf blades triangular, mostly 2-3 x 1-1.5 cm, basally cordate, very coarsely crenate-dentate, acute, palmately 5-nerved, evenly pubescent above and beneath with mostly simple hairs ca. 0.5 mm long and some stellate hairs; petioles 1-1.5 cm long; stipules subulate, 1-2 mm long. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, the pedicels 1-2 cm long, slender, distally pilose; involucellar bracts 5, lance-ovate, 6-7 x 3-3.5 mm, basally pilose, spreading or somewhat reflexed in bud; calyx 6-8 mm long, minutely stellate-pubescent; corolla 1.5-2 cm long, white with red center and red veins; staminal column 4-5 mm long, the filaments 1 mm long; styles emergent from the column, purplish. Fruits ca. 7 mm diam., minutely puberulent; mericarps 4 mm high, carinate, the crest prolonged and acute apically, reticulate-veined and with small excrescences on each side toward apex. Chromosome number, 2n = 56 (Krapovickas & Cristóbal, 1962).

  • Discussion

    Illustrations. Krapovickas & Cristóbal (1962: figs. 1H, 4).

    The Stuckert specimen (Stuckert 1247) from Puesto del Paraíso (Córdoba, Argentina) was given a tentative manuscript name by R. E. Fries, together with an appended description (in Swedish), but this name was evidently never published. Fries regarded Pavonia hastata forma brevifolia Gürke (see P. cymbalaria) as a synonym of his proposed new species. Pavonia revoluta, as the name suggests, is characterized by the possession of spreading to reflexed involucellar bracts.

  • Distribution

    From Argentina (Córdoba, Entre Ríos, San Luis, Tucumán) and Bolivia. The type locality is approximately at 31°S, 64°W.

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