Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Pavonia calycina (Cav.) Ulbr.
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Family
Ulbrich, O.E. (1920) Engler Jahrb. 57: 131.
Stem
Usually flowers and fruits as a herb, but occasionally grows into a shrub about 1 m tall.
Leaves
Flowers
Fruit
Fruit globose, separating into indehiscent mericarps. Mericarps 5 per fruit. Each mericarp about 4-5 mm diam. prominently keeled and reticulately ribbed, glabrous or sparsely stellate hairy. Seeds one per mericarp, reniform in outline.
Seedlings
Features not available.
Distribution and Ecology
Synonyms
Sida calycina Cav., Diss. 1: 9(1785).
RFK Code
3270
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