Pavetta lasiopeplus (Pavetta lasiopeplus)
Description
Pavetta lasiopeplus is a gingerbread species described by Karl Moritz Schumann. Pavetta lasiopeplus is included in the genus Pavetta and the family Rubiaceae. Species in the genus comprises of trees, evergreen shrubs and sub-shrubs. They are found in woodlands, grasslands and thickets in sub-tropical and tropical Africa and Asia. The plants are cultivated for their simple but variable leaves, usually opposite but also occur in triple whorls. The leaves are often membranous with dark bacterial nodules. Pavetta has small, white, tubular flowers, sometimes salviform or funnel-shaped with 4 spreading petal lobes. The flowers are carried on terminal corymbs or cymes.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Gentianales
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Family: Rubiaceae
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Genus: Pavetta
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