5007.000 Pavonia Cav.

Description of the genus

Annual, biennial or perennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves often cordate at base. Flowers solitary, occasionally in terminal racemes or spikes. Epicalyx of 5-16 bracts. Calyx of 5 lobes. Style branches usually 10, always more than 5. Fruit of 5 indehiscent 1-seeded mericarps. Seeds reniform.

Derivation of name: Named after José Antonia Pavon (1754-1840), Spanish botanist and traveller.

Worldwide: 150 species from tropical and warm zones

Zambia: 6 taxa.

Pavonia urens

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
burchellii (DC.) R.A.DyerN,C,SDescription, Image
burchellii (DC.) R.A.Dyer
columella Cav.CDescription, Image
rogersii N.E.Br.
senegalensis (Cav.) LeistnerB,C,SDescription, Image
urens Cav.NDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Pavonia:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Pavonia
Flora of Burundi: Pavonia
Flora of Caprivi: Pavonia
Flora of Malawi: Pavonia
Flora of Mozambique: Pavonia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Pavonia

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Pavonia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Pavonia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Pavonia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Pavonia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Pavonia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Pavonia
JSTOR Plant Science: Pavonia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Pavonia
Plants of the World Online: Pavonia
Tropicos: Pavonia
Wikipedia: Pavonia

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-25

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2025). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Pavonia.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=941, retrieved 24 June 2025

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