{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants in the coffee, madder and bedstraw family Rubiaceae}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = IMG 7190-Pavetta capensis.JPG |image_caption = ''Pavetta capensis'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Pavetta |authority = L. |type_species = ''Pavetta indica'' |type_species_authority = L. |synonyms = *''Acmostima'' {{small|Raf.}} *''Baconia'' {{small|DC.}} *''Crinita'' {{small|Houtt.}} *''Exechostylus'' {{small|K.Schum.}} *''Pavate'' {{small|Adans.}} *''Verulamia'' {{small|DC. ex Poir.}} }}

'''''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.<ref>Encyclopaedia of Garden Plants, C. Brickell, 1996, London, Royal Horticultural Society, {{ISBN|0-7513-0436-0}}.</ref>

==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.<ref name="Verstraete2011">{{cite journal |vauthors=Verstraete B, Van Elst D, Steyn H, Van Wyk B, Lemaire B, Smets E, Dessein S |year=2011 |title=Endophytic bacteria in toxic South African plants: identification, phylogeny and possible involvement in gousiekte |journal=PLOS ONE |volume=6 |issue=4 |article-number=e19265 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0019265 |pmid=21541284 |pmc=3082559 |bibcode=2011PLoSO...619265V |doi-access=free}}</ref>

==Species== {{main|List of Pavetta species|l1=List of ''Pavetta'' species}}

Selected species include: {{div col|colwidth=22em}} * ''Pavetta axillipara'' {{small|Bremek.}} * ''Pavetta blanda'' {{small|Bremek.}} * ''Pavetta brachycalyx'' {{small|Hiern}} * ''Pavetta capensis'' {{small|(Houtt.) Bremek.}} * ''Pavetta gleniei'' {{small|Thwaites ex Hook.f.}} * ''Pavetta holstii'' {{small|K.Schum. ex Engl.}} * ''Pavetta indica'' {{small|L.}} * ''Pavetta intermedia'' {{small|Bremek.}} * ''Pavetta kimberleyana'' {{small|S.T.Reynolds}} * ''Pavetta kupensis'' {{small|S.D.Manning}} * ''Pavetta lasioclada'' {{small|(K.Krause) Mildbr. ex Bremek.}} * ''Pavetta linearifolia'' {{small|Bremek.}} * ''Pavetta lynesii'' {{small|Bridson}} * ''Pavetta manyanguensis'' {{small|Bridson}} * ''Pavetta mollissima'' {{small|Hutch. & Dalziel}} * ''Pavetta monticola'' {{small|Hiern}} * ''Pavetta muiriana'' {{small|S.D.Manning}} * ''Pavetta nitidissima'' {{small|Bridson}} * ''Pavetta rubentifolia'' {{small|S.D.Manning}} * ''Pavetta schumanniana'' {{small|F.Hoffm. ex K.Schum.}} * ''Pavetta sparsipila'' {{small|Bremek.}} * ''Pavetta tarennoides'' {{small|S.Moore}}

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==Pictures== <gallery perrow="7"> File:Pavetta capensis 1.jpg|''Pavetta capensis'' File:Pavetta crassicaulis flowers in Hyderabad W IMG 8710.jpg|''Pavetta crassicaulis'' File:Pavetta crassicaulis flower buds in Hyderabad W IMG 8707.jpg|''Pavetta crassicaulis'' File:Pavetta indica 03.JPG|''Pavetta indica'' File:Pavetta lanceolata, vrugte, a, Walter Sisulu NBT.jpg|''Pavetta lanceolata'' File:Pavetta tomentosa W IMG_2868.jpg|''Pavetta tomentosa'' </gallery>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{Commons category-inline}} *{{Wikispecies-inline}} * [https://apps.kew.org/wcsp/rubiaceae/ World Checklist of Rubiaceae]

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Category:Pavetta Category:Rubiaceae genera Category:Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot