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.
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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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