Pavonia mutisii Kunth

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Malvaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Pavonia mutisii Kunth

  • Type

    Type. Colombia. Mutis 5186 (holotype, MA; isotype, US)

  • Synonyms

    Asterochlaena cuspidata Garcke, Pavonia cuspidata (Garcke) Garcke, Pavonia albiflora R.E.Fr., Hibiscus cordifolius Mill., Malache cordifolia (L.f.) Kuntze, Pavonia kunthii Gürke, Pavonia kunthii var. cordifolia Gürke, Pavonia cordifolia C.Wright ex Griseb.

  • Description

    Species Description - Subshrubs 1 m tall, the stems densely viscid and sparsely pilose, with scattered simple hairs 2-2.5 mm long, or these lacking. Leaf blades mostly 4-8(-13) x 2-5(-9) cm, ovate, cordate, prominently to obscurely serrate, acuminate, palmately 5-7-nerved, minutely and softly stellate-tomentose (the hairs 0.2-0.5 mm long beneath, smaller above), also pilose on the veins, discolorous; petioles 1-2.5(-7) cm long; stipules 2-5 mm long, subulate, Flowers solitary in the leaf axils or forming a terminal panicle, the pedicels 2.5-10 cm long, equaling or exceeding the subtending leaves; involucellar bracts 6-7, 10-15 x ca. 1 mm, viscid, pilose only toward the base; calyx 6-7 mm long, ciliate, often whitish in intercostal areas; corolla 2.5-3 cm long, white, glabrous on margins of claw; staminal column 15-17 mm long, pallid, glabrous, the filaments 0.5-1 mm long, often in 3 or 4 whorls; styles exceeding the column, the stigmas villous. Fruits oblate, 7-9 mm diam., 4.5 mm high, obscurely scabridulous on suture, otherwise glabrous.

  • Discussion

    Illustrations. Fries (1947: pl. 8, as P. albiflora); Fuertes (1989: pl. 11, as P. aff. cuspidata).

    Pavonia mutisii is related to P. mollis. See the latter for further discussion.

  • Distribution

    From Colombia and Ecuador.

    Colombia South America| Norte de Santander Colombia South America| Valle Colombia South America| Ecuador South America| Guayas Ecuador South America| El Oro Ecuador South America|