Pavetta cataractarum S. Moore

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Synonyms:	Pavetta cataractarum S. Moore var. hirtiflora Bremek. Pavetta conflatiflora S. Moore Pavetta incana sensu R.B. Drumm.
Common names:	Zambezi bride's bush (English)
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Status:	Native
Description:	Shrub or rarely a small tree. Bark grey or buff; young branches velvety. Leaves opposite, obovate to oblanceolate, 6-16 cm long, densely grey-velvety below, domatia absent but bacterial nodules present along the veins and scattered; leaf base running down the petiole; stipules awned. Flowers in dense terminal heads, subtended by up to 3 pairs of leaves. Corolla 1-1.5 cm long, white; style up to 2.5 cm long, exserted. Fruit spherical, 6-8 mm in diameter, velvety, crowned by the remains of the calyx.
Notes:	Note: similar to P. klotzschiana K. Schum. but their distributions in Zimbabwe do not overlap.
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Habitat:	Occurring in riverine forest and woodland, often on termite mounds.
Altitude range: (metres)	300 - 1200 m
Flowering time:	Jan
Worldwide distribution:	Botswana, DRC (Katanga), Namibia, southern Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe distribution:	N,W
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Content last updated:	Friday 27 February 2009
Literature:	Pickering, H. & Roe, E. (2009). Wild Flowers of the Victoria Falls Area Helen Pickering, London Page 104. (Includes a picture).

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