Pavetta cataractarum S. Moore

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Photo: Helen Pickering
Zambian side of Victoria Falls: within the spray zone of the fenced area of the Falls. Over the knife edge bridge, first left and it is on the right about the centre of the island

Photo: Bart Wursten
Mana Pools

Photo: Bart Wursten
Rainforest opposite Devil's Cataract, Victoria falls.

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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.
Type location:	Zimbabwe, Victoria Falls
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Habitat:	In riverine forest and woodland, often on termite mounds.
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Flowering time:	Jan
Worldwide distribution:	Botswana, DRC (Katanga), Namibia, southern Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
National distribution:	N
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Images last updated:	Monday 5 October 2015
Literature:	Bridson, D.M. & Verdcourt, B. (2003). Rubiaceae, Part 3 Flora Zambesiaca 5(3) Pages 558 - 559. Curtis, B.A. & Mannheimer, C.A. (2005). Tree Atlas of Namibia National Botanic Research Institute, Windhoek Page 621. (Includes a picture). Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 420. (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 73. Pickering, H. & Roe, E. (2009). Wild Flowers of the Victoria Falls Area Helen Pickering, London Page 104. (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 98.

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