Rubiaceae
Pavetta

Pavetta sphaerobotrys K.Schum.

First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 494 (1900)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SE. Kenya to Tanzania. It is a tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Rubiaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1976

Morphology General Habit
Bush or shrubby tree 3–9 m. tall; young branches glabrous; older branches with pale brown or grey-brown peeling bark.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves glabrous; blades often drying grey or greyish-brown, very narrowly elliptic to elliptic or occasionally tending to be oblanceolate, 3.5-15 cm. long, 1.5–5.4 cm. wide, apex acuminate or less often acute, base narrowly cuneate to attenuate; bacterial nodules dot-like to linear, along the midrib and lateral nerves plus a few scattered; petiole 0.9–3.8 cm. long; stipule-limbs thinly or very thinly membranous and translucent, truncate, caducous, 2–7 mm. long, with caudate tip up to 3 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Corymbs terminal on main or lateral branches 4.3–13 cm. long with up to 5 nodes and ± 2 pairs of leaves near the apex; compact to moderately compact, 1.7–3.5 cm. across; primary branches up to 4 mm. long, glabrous; secondary branches usually present; pedicels up to 6 mm. long, glabrous; bracts 3–7 mm. long, membranous to thinly membranous, with very few silky hairs inside.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx glabrous; tube 1–1.25 mm. long; limb-tube 0.25–1 mm. long, slightly wider than the tube; lobes lanceolate, 2–7 mm. long, 1–2 mm. wide (in flowering specimens) tending to reflex, often with nerves apparent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla-tube 0.5–1 cm. long, 1–1.5 mm. wide at top, glabrous outside, not hairy at throat; lobes oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 3–6.5 mm. long, 1–2 mm. wide, acuminate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit, blackish grey, 6–7 mm. in diameter, glabrous; calyx-limb persistent, accrescent; inflorescence-branches and pedicels accrescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds ± 5 mm. wide, rugulose on convex face.
[FTEA]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0