Pavonia (Goetheoides)
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Malvaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Shrubs or shrubby herbs. Leaves alternate, stipulate, angled or lobed. Flowers perfect, commonly solitary on axillary peduncles. Involueel of 5-15 bractlets. Calyx 5-lobed. Petals 5. Carpels 5, 1-celled; styles 10; stigmas capitate; ovules solitary. Mature carpels separating from axis, 1-3-spined on the back, more or less deeply 2-valved. Seeds solitary, ascending. [In honor of Joseph Pavon, Spanish botanist and explorer.] Sixty species or more, mostly of tropical distribution, the following typical.