Pavonia achanioides Griseb.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Malvaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Pavonia achanioides Griseb.

  • Type

    Type. Cuba. 1865, Wright 2066 p.p. (lectotype, GOET-#98; isolectotypes, CTES [fragment], GH, GOET-#99, K, MA, MO-#10245, NY-2, P as photo CTES, S-2, UC, US). The lectotype was chosen by Fryxell & Fuertes (1991: 598). Here excluded is Wright 2066 p.p. (MO-#10246), which is Hibiscus phoeniceus Jacq.

  • Synonyms

    Malache achanioides (Griseb.) Kuntze

  • Description

    Species Description - Shrubs with stems densely and minutely pubescent, the hairs 0.2-0.3 mm long. Leaf blades ovate-triangular, mostly 4-8 x 2.5-5 cm, basally cordate, serrate-crenate, acute, palmately 7-nerved, concolorous or slightly discolorous, with appressed simple hairs on both surfaces (of variable size, up to 1 mm long); petioles 3-6 cm long; stipules subulate, 2-3 mm long. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, the pedicels 2-3.5 cm long, with some glandular hairs; involucellar bracts 5, subulate, 4-5 x 1-1.5 mm, hispid and glandular-pubescent; calyx 8-9 mm long, densely hispid, the hairs 0.5-1 mm long; corolla 3 cm long, reddish; staminal column ca. 2 cm long, glabrous, the filaments 3-4 mm long; styles exceeding the column, slender, slightly shorter than petals. Fruits 8 mm diam., retrorsely hispid, the mericarps strongly carinate, 5-7 mm tall, the crest sometimes prolonged apically and subacute.

  • Discussion

    Pavonia achanioides is distinctive for its relatively large flowers with exserted genitalia, its more or less viscid herbage, and for having appressed simple hairs on the upper leaf surface.

  • Common Names

    majagüilla

  • Distribution

    A Cuban endemic.

    Cuba South America| Piñar del Río Cuba South America|