Pavetta catophylla

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gentianales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Lamiids Ordo: Gentianales

Pavetta catophylla K.Schum., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 28(1): 80 (1899)

Type: F.R.R. Schlechter 11568 ([1 December 1897]; B, BR [BR0000008850492^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}], E [E00193688^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}], K [K000412016^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}], MO-391813 (04765751)^(JSTOR), PRE [PRE0150798-0^(GBIF)], S-G-4589^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}, Z-000021941^(GBIF); Isotypes: GRA [GRA0002827-0^(JSTOR)], HBG [HBG521327^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}], L {L 0057810^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}, WAG 0003015^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}]}, LE 00017411^(JSTOR), PH [PH00019366 (1076841)^{(CMH, JSTOR)}, possibly], US [US00138546 (553272)^{(GBIF, JSTOR)}], W 1907-0005069^(GBIF); cf. LY [LY0296312^(GBIF), without any type indication], P [P03970002^(GBIF), without any type indication]).
Type locality: [Mozambique.] Delagoa-Bai: Strauchwerk bei Lourenço Marques [= Maputo Bay: scrub near Maputo].

Homotypic
- Pavetta catophylla var. pubescens Bremek., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 37: 159 (1934), not validly publ.
Heterotypic
- Pavetta catophylla var. glabra Bremek., Ann. Transvaal Mus. 13: 208 (1929); reduced to P. catophylla by Kok & Grobbelaar (1984)
  - Type: F.A. Rogers TRV 22211 (Holotype: PRE; Isotypes: PRE {PRE0148119-0^{(GBIF, JSTOR)} [collected in on 5 December 1918], PRE0148120-0^{(GBIF, JSTOR)} [collected in December 1918]}, Z-000021942^(GBIF)).
  - Type locality: [South Africa. Mpumalanga:] Komatipoort.

Native distribution areas:
Africa South Tropical Africa Mozambique. Southern Africa KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland [fide Retief 2003], Northern Provinces (Mpumalanga, Northern Province). References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

Bremekamp, C.E.B. 1929. A revision of the South African species of Pavetta. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 13(3): 182–213. hdl: 10520/AJA00411752_672 Reference page.
Bremekamp, C.E.B. 1934. A monograph of the genus Pavetta L. Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis 37(1–13): 1–208. Biblioteca Digital Reference page.
Kok, P.D.F. & Grobbelaar, N. 1984. Studies on Pavetta (Rubiaceae) II. Enumeration of species and synonymy. South African Journal of Botany 3(3): 185–187. DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4618(16)30046-8 Reference page.
Retief, E. 2003. Rubiaceae. In: Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.), Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 825–841. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. ISBN 1-919795-99-5. ARK: /t50g8869c PDF (97 MB) Reference page. [see page 836]
Sennikov, A.N. 1996. [The type specimens of the family Rubiaceae kept in the herbarium of Komarov Botanical Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg). Subfamily Ixoroideae]. (in Russian) Botanicheskii Zhurnal 81(9): 37–49. PDF. Reference page. [see page 43]

Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2024. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Pavetta catophylla. Accessed: 2024 August 27.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2024. Pavetta catophylla in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2024 August 27. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2022. Pavetta catophylla. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 21 July 2022.

Afrikaans: Sandbruidsbos
English: Sand Brides-bush

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