# Pavetta
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{{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](/source/Pavetta_capensis)''
|display_parents = 2
|taxon = Pavetta
|authority = [L.](/source/Carl_Linnaeus)
|type_species = ''[Pavetta indica](/source/Pavetta_indica)''
|type_species_authority = [L.](/source/Carl_Linnaeus)
|synonyms = *''Acmostima'' {{small|[Raf.](/source/Constantine_Samuel_Rafinesque)}}
*''Baconia'' {{small|[DC.](/source/Augustin_Pyramus_de_Candolle)}}
*''Crinita'' {{small|[Houtt.](/source/Maarten_Houttuyn)}}
*''Exechostylus'' {{small|[K.Schum.](/source/Karl_Moritz_Schumann)}}
*''Pavate'' {{small|[Adans.](/source/Michel_Adanson)}}
*''Verulamia'' {{small|[DC.](/source/Augustin_Pyramus_de_Candolle) ex [Poir.](/source/Jean_Louis_Marie_Poiret)}}
}}
'''''Pavetta''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant)s in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Rubiaceae](/source/Rubiaceae). It comprises about 360 species of trees, evergreen shrubs and sub-shrubs. It is found in woodlands, [grasslands](/source/grasslands) and thickets in sub-tropical and tropical Africa and Asia. The plants are cultivated for their simple but variable leaves, usually [opposite](/source/opposite_leaves) 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](/source/corymbs) or [cyme](/source/cyme_(botany))s.[Encyclopaedia of Garden Plants, C. Brickell, 1996, London, Royal Horticultural Society, {{ISBN|0-7513-0436-0}}.]
==Gousiekte==
Two ''Pavetta'' species, ''[Pavetta harborii](/source/Pavetta_harborii)'' and ''[Pavetta schummaniana](/source/Pavetta_schummaniana)'', harbor endophytic ''[Burkholderia](/source/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.[{{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}}]
==Species==
{{main|List of Pavetta species|l1=List of ''Pavetta'' species}}
Selected species include:
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* ''[Pavetta axillipara](/source/Pavetta_axillipara)'' {{small|[Bremek.](/source/Cornelis_Eliza_Bertus_Bremekamp)}}
* ''[Pavetta blanda](/source/Pavetta_blanda)'' {{small|[Bremek.](/source/Cornelis_Eliza_Bertus_Bremekamp)}}
* ''[Pavetta brachycalyx](/source/Pavetta_brachycalyx)'' {{small|[Hiern](/source/William_Philip_Hiern)}}
* ''[Pavetta capensis](/source/Pavetta_capensis)'' {{small|([Houtt.](/source/Maarten_Houttuyn)) [Bremek.](/source/Cornelis_Eliza_Bertus_Bremekamp)}}
* ''[Pavetta gleniei](/source/Pavetta_gleniei)'' {{small|[Thwaites](/source/George_Henry_Kendrick_Thwaites) ex [Hook.f.](/source/Joseph_Dalton_Hooker)}}
* ''[Pavetta holstii](/source/Pavetta_holstii)'' {{small|[K.Schum.](/source/Karl_Moritz_Schumann) ex [Engl.](/source/Heinrich_Gustav_Adolf_Engler)}}
* ''[Pavetta indica](/source/Pavetta_indica)'' {{small|[L.](/source/Carl_Linnaeus)}}
* ''[Pavetta intermedia](/source/Pavetta_intermedia)'' {{small|[Bremek.](/source/Cornelis_Eliza_Bertus_Bremekamp)}}
* ''[Pavetta kimberleyana](/source/Pavetta_kimberleyana)'' {{small|[S.T.Reynolds](/source/Sally_T._Reynolds)}}
* ''[Pavetta kupensis](/source/Pavetta_kupensis)'' {{small|[S.D.Manning](/source/Stephen_D._Manning)}}
* ''[Pavetta lasioclada](/source/Pavetta_lasioclada)'' {{small|([K.Krause](/source/Kurt_Krause)) [Mildbr.](/source/Johannes_Mildbraed) ex [Bremek.](/source/Cornelis_Eliza_Bertus_Bremekamp)}}
* ''[Pavetta linearifolia](/source/Pavetta_linearifolia)'' {{small|[Bremek.](/source/Cornelis_Eliza_Bertus_Bremekamp)}}
* ''[Pavetta lynesii](/source/Pavetta_lynesii)'' {{small|[Bridson](/source/Diane_Mary_Bridson)}}
* ''[Pavetta manyanguensis](/source/Pavetta_manyanguensis)'' {{small|[Bridson](/source/Diane_Mary_Bridson)}}
* ''[Pavetta mollissima](/source/Pavetta_mollissima)'' {{small|[Hutch.](/source/John_Hutchinson_(botanist)) & [Dalziel](/source/John_McEwan_Dalziel)}}
* ''[Pavetta monticola](/source/Pavetta_monticola)'' {{small|[Hiern](/source/William_Philip_Hiern)}}
* ''[Pavetta muiriana](/source/Pavetta_muiriana)'' {{small|[S.D.Manning](/source/Stephen_D._Manning)}}
* ''[Pavetta nitidissima](/source/Pavetta_nitidissima)'' {{small|[Bridson](/source/Diane_Mary_Bridson)}}
* ''[Pavetta rubentifolia](/source/Pavetta_rubentifolia)'' {{small|[S.D.Manning](/source/Stephen_D._Manning)}}
* ''[Pavetta schumanniana](/source/Pavetta_schumanniana)'' {{small|[F.Hoffm.](/source/Ferdinand_Hoffmann) ex [K.Schum.](/source/Karl_Moritz_Schumann)}}
* ''[Pavetta sparsipila](/source/Pavetta_sparsipila)'' {{small|[Bremek.](/source/Cornelis_Eliza_Bertus_Bremekamp)}}
* ''[Pavetta tarennoides](/source/Pavetta_tarennoides)'' {{small|[S.Moore](/source/Spencer_Le_Marchant_Moore)}}
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==Pictures==
File:Pavetta capensis 1.jpg|''[Pavetta capensis](/source/Pavetta_capensis)''
File:Pavetta crassicaulis flowers in Hyderabad W IMG 8710.jpg|''[Pavetta crassicaulis](/source/Pavetta_crassicaulis)''
File:Pavetta crassicaulis flower buds in Hyderabad W IMG 8707.jpg|''[Pavetta crassicaulis](/source/Pavetta_crassicaulis)''
File:Pavetta indica 03.JPG|''[Pavetta indica](/source/Pavetta_indica)''
File:Pavetta lanceolata, vrugte, a, Walter Sisulu NBT.jpg|''[Pavetta lanceolata](/source/Pavetta_lanceolata)''
File:Pavetta tomentosa W IMG_2868.jpg|''[Pavetta tomentosa](/source/Pavetta_tomentosa)''
==References==
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==External links==
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* [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
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