Pavetta cooperi Harv. & Sond.

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Rubiaceae > Pavetta

Characteristics

Shrub or small tree, up to 3 m high. Leaves petiolate, elliptic or broadly obovate-acute, bases attenuate, densely hairy, especially on venation, secondary veins many. Domatia covered by dense hairy pockets, in axils of main and secondary veins on lower leaf surface. Bacterial nodules round or slightly elongated, arranged along veins. Inflorescences at ends of stout, leafless, side branchlets; dense, many-flowered, unbranched rounded cymes (balls). Flowers: corolla tube 15 mm long; lobes 5 mm long. Calyx: tube urceolate; lobes linear, 7 mm long, cymbiform. Flowering time Oct.-Jan. Fruit round, 5 mm in diam., shiny black, persistent calyx lobes.
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Deciduous shrub to small tree to 3 m. Stem much-branched from the base. Branchlets velvety. Leaves opposite, elliptic to obovate, 40-55(-90) x 25-38(-45) mm, taper to base & pointed apex, thin, hairs slightly rough above, softly hairy below with raised midrib & veins, nodules line the midrib & lower parts of the main veins, domatia absent. Stalk 6-12 mm. Flowers white, bristly calyx with long, fine lobes. On short stalks, in large, pompon-like clusters. Fruits shiny black, 5 mm diam., crowned by the remains of the long, slender calyx.
Large shrub or tree, up to 6 m high; branches terete, very shortly pubescent. Leaves petiolate; blade broadly elliptic, up to 60 x 45 mm, apex acute, upper surface hairy-scabrous. Flowers: in dense, globose corymbs; calyx teeth setaceous, at least twice as long as tube; corolla with lobes contorted, white; Nov., Dec. Fruit globose, black when ripe, crowned by calyx limb.
Shrub, up to 2 m high. Leaves rhomboid to broadly elliptic, pubescent, petiolate, bacterial nodules dot-shaped, close to main vein in lower two-thirds of lamina. Calyx lobes linear, 5-6 mm long. Corolla tube 10-15 mm long. Flowers white.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 3.0
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Soil texture 7-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-11

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Uses medicinal
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Images

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Distribution

Pavetta cooperi world distribution map, present in Lesotho, eSwatini, and South Africa

Conservation status

Pavetta cooperi threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:759628-1
WFO ID wfo-0000265309
COL ID 6TV4P
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Synonyms

Ixora cooperi Pavetta cooperi Pavetta haegarthii