Pavetta tomentosa

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Rubiaceae
Subfamilia: Dialypetalanthoideae
Tribus: Pavetteae
Genus: Pavetta
Species: Pavetta tomentosa
Varietates: P. t. var. glabrescens – P. t. var. tomentosa

Name

Pavetta tomentosa Roxb. ex Sm., Cycl. [A. Rees], (London ed.) 26: n. 2 (1814)

Typus: W. Roxburgh s.n. (lectotypus: LINN [Herb. Smith 191.2^(JSTOR)], designated by Turner 2013: 158).
- Note: until this lectotypification, several authors (e.g. Chantaranothai 2021) have regarded Roxburgh's drawing in Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient., t. 186 (1840) as type.
Type locality: "India".

Synonyms

Homotypic
- Ixora tomentosa [Roxb., Hort. Bengal.: 10 (1814), nom. nud.;] (Roxb. ex Sm.) Roxb., Fl. Ind. 1: 396 (1820)
- Pavetta indica var. tomentosa (Roxb. ex Sm.) Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 150 (1880)
- Pavetta indica subsp. tomentosa (Roxb. ex Sm.) Bennet, Fl. Howrah District: 356 (1979)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Asia-Temperate
- Regional: China
  - China South-Central (Guizhou, Yunnan), China Southeast (Guangdong, Guangxi)
Continental: Asia-Tropical
- Regional: Indian Subcontinent
  - Assam (Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura), Bangladesh, East Himalaya (Arunachal Pradesh, Bhutan, Sikkim), India (Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Goa, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal), Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya (Himachal Pradesh)
- Regional: Indo-China
  - Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
- Regional: Malesia
  - Borneo, Malaya, Philippines

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

Notes

Some authors have recognized its occurrence also in Singapore, but K.M. Wong in Wong et al. (2019: 230, 232) regards them as misidentifications of Pavetta wallichiana Steud. ex Craib.

References

Additional references

Roxburgh, W. 1814. Hortus Bengalensis, or a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta. Serampore. BHL Reference page.
Roxburgh, W. (†) 1820. Flora Indica; or Descriptions of Indian Plants. [Edited by Carey, W.] Vol. 1. 493 pp. Serampore. BHL Reference page.
Wight, R. 1838–1840. Icones Plantarum Indiae Orientalis: or figures of Indian plants. Vol. I. pp. 1–318. Madras: J.B. Pharoah. BHL Reference page.
Hooker, J.D., assisted by various botanists, 1880–1882. The Flora of British India Vol. 3. Caprifoliaceae to Apocynaceae. 712 pp. London: L. Reeve. BHL Reference page.
Rout, R.C. & Deb, D.B. 1999. Taxonomic revision of the genus Pavetta (Rubiaceae) in Indian Subcontinent. Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 41(1–4): 1–182. DOI: 10.20324/nelumbo/v41/1999/74261 . Reference page. [see pages 122–136.]
Chen Tao & Taylor, C.M. 2011. Pavetta polyantha. Pp. 288, 289 in Wu, Zh.Y. , Raven, P.H. & Hong, D.-Y. (eds.), Flora of China. Volume 19: Cucurbitaceae through Valerianaceae, with Annonaceae and Berberidaceae. Science Press, Beijing & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, ISBN 978-1-935641-04-9. efloras PDF Reference page.
Chen Tao & Taylor, C.M. 2011. Pavetta tomentosa. Pp. 288, 289-290 in Wu, Zh.Y. , Raven, P.H. & Hong, D.-Y. (eds.), Flora of China. Volume 19: Cucurbitaceae through Valerianaceae, with Annonaceae and Berberidaceae. Science Press, Beijing & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, ISBN 978-1-935641-04-9. efloras PDF Reference page.
Turner, I.M. 2013. Robinson a century on: The nomenclatural relevance of Roxburgh's Hortus Bengalensis. Taxon 62(1): 152–172. DOI: 10.1002/tax.621013 JSTOR Reference page.
Nguyễn, T.T.T. 2019. Nghiên cứu phân loại chi Dọt sành – Pavetta L. (họ Cà phê Rubiaceae Juss.) ở Việt Nam. Hà Nội. (Vietnamese) Online. Reference page. [see page 53.]
Wong, K.M., Turner, I.M., Wang, R.J., Harwood, R., Seah, W.W., Ng, X.Y., Lim, R.C.J., Lua, H.K. & Mahyuni, R. 2019. Rubiaceae. Flora of Singapore 13: 1–358. DOI: 10.26492/fos13.2019-01 Reference page.
Chantaranothai, P. 2021. Taxonomic Notes on Pavetta L. (Rubiaceae) from Thailand and New Records for Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. Tropical Natural History 21(1): 146–166. PDF Reference page. [see pages 160–165.]

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Pavetta tomentosa in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 May 10. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Pavetta tomentosa in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 May 10. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2022. Pavetta tomentosa. Published online. Accessed: 10 May 2022.
Tropicos.org 2022. Pavetta tomentosa. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 10 May 2022.

Vernacular names

ไทย: ข้าวสารป่า (Chantaranothai 2021)
Tiếng Việt: Dọt Sành Lông Mềm (Nguyễn 2019)
中文: 绒毛大沙叶