Pavonia longipedunculata Gürke

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Malvaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Pavonia longipedunculata Gürke

  • Type

    Type. Brazil. Bahia: Blanchet 3949 (isotypes, C, CTES [fragment], F, K, MG, MO).

  • Description

    Species Description - Shrubs 3-4 m tall, the stems minutely lepidote to glabrate. Leaf blades mostly 12-23 x 3-9 cm, narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic, basally truncate to cuneate, entire, acuminate, penninerved, sparsely and obscurely lepidote to glabrate; petioles 2-7 cm long, bearded in a narrow line on adaxial surface (the hairs 0.2-0.4 mm long); stipules lanceolate, 10-13(-26) x 1-1.5 mm, erect, with dense grayish puberulence, deciduous. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, the pedicels 9-30 cm long; involucellar bracts 5-7, narrowly to broadly ovate, 12-18 x 3-7 mm, with minute sublepidote stellate hairs; calyx 10-12 mm long, densely yellowish-puberulent; corolla tubular, 13-15 mm long, yellowish-green, the genitalia slightly exserted. Fruits unknown.

  • Discussion

    Additional illustration. Gürke (1892b: pl. 102, fig. 1).

  • Distribution

    From the Atlantic coast of Brazil (Bahia) from 16°30'S to 17°S.

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