Pavonia renifolia Krapov.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Malvaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Pavonia renifolia Krapov.

  • Type

    Type. Brazil. Santa Catarina: Timbé do Sul, Hagelund 11084 (holotype, CTES).

  • Description

    Species Description - Prostrate herbs from a perennial root, the stems with narrow longitudinal lines of fine, dense pubescence, otherwise glabrous. Leaf blades reniform or suborbicular, cordate, coarsely crenate, obtuse, sparsely hirsute with simple hairs 1 mm long to glabrescent, palmately 7-nerved, 1.5-2 x 2-2.5 cm; petioles 5-12 mm long, with a narrow dense line of pubescence on adaxial side; stipules subulate, 3 mm long. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, the pedicels 1-2 cm long, evenly short-pubescent; involucellar bracts 5-6, lanceolate, 5 x 1 mm, sparsely pubescent; calyx 6-7 mm long, subglabrous, deeply divided, the lobes lanceolate, distally ciliate; petals 17 mm long, yellow, the genitalia included. Fruits 6-7 mm diam. (excluding the spines), yellowish, hirsute (the hairs 1-1.5 mm long, sparse); mericarps with 3 stout spines 6-7 mm long, the central one erect and connivent with those of adjacent mericarps, the lateral ones spreading and also connivent with their adjacent partners, the fruit as a whole thus with 1 erect spine and 5 radiating spines, the spines very minutely and obscurely barbed at the tips.

  • Discussion

    Illustrations. Krapovickas (1982b: fig. ID, pl. 5).

    As a procumbent plant with reniform to suborbicular leaves, Pavonia renifolia is not to be confused with any other member of P. subgen. Typhalea.

  • Common Names

    roseta

  • Distribution

    Known from S Brazil in the state of Santa Catarina. The type locality is at 28°50'S, 49°52'W.

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