Pavetta
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Pavetta is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It comprises about 360 species of trees, evergreen shrubs and sub-shrubs. It is found in woodlands, grasslands and thickets in sub-tropical and tropical Africa and Asia. The plants are cultivated for their simple but variable leaves, usually opposite but also occur in triple whorls. The leaves are often membranous with dark bacterial nodules. Pavetta has small, white, tubular flowers, sometimes salviform or funnel-shaped with 4 spreading petal lobes. The flowers are carried on terminal corymbs or cymes.[1]
Gousiekte
Two Pavetta species, Pavetta harborii and Pavetta schummaniana, harbor endophytic Burkholderia bacteria in visible leaf nodules and are known to cause gousiekte, a cardiotoxicosis of ruminants characterised by heart failure four to eight weeks after ingestion of certain rubiaceous plants.[2]
Species
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- Pavetta axillipara Bremek.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta blanda Bremek.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta brachycalyx HiernScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta capensis (Houtt.) Bremek.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta gleniei Thwaites ex Hook.f.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta holstii K.Schum. ex Engl.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta indica L.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta intermedia Bremek.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta kimberleyana S.T.ReynoldsScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta kupensis S.D.ManningScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta lasioclada (K.Krause) Mildbr. ex Bremek.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta linearifolia Bremek.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta lynesii BridsonScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta manyanguensis BridsonScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta mollissima Hutch. & DalzielScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta monticola HiernScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta muiriana S.D.ManningScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta nitidissima BridsonScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta rubentifolia S.D.ManningScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta schumanniana F.Hoffm. ex K.Schum.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta sparsipila Bremek.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pavetta tarennoides S.MooreScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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References
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- ↑ Encyclopaedia of Garden Plants, C. Brickell, 1996, London, Royal Horticultural Society, Template:ISBN.
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