Distribution Map

Pavetta barbertonensis

       
Barbeton Brides-bush
Barbeton Pavetta
Lidlebelendlovu
Luphehlwane

Rubiaceae Ixoroideae Pavetteae 

Eswatini Red List status (2005): LR-lc

As at April 2024, 11 herbarium specimens, 11 visual observations

South African Red List status: LC
Global Distribution: Restricted distribution, extent of occurrence less than 100 000 km2, area of occupancy less than 100 km2
Found within protected areas: Mlawula

Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Pavetta barbertonensis - Spreading or straggling shrub, hairless or almost so. Leaves lance-shaped or narrowly oval, tapering to both ends, with or without short stalk, c 4 cm long x 1,5 cm wide; stipules long-pointed. Inflorescences mostly terminal, densely many-flowered, hemi-spherical. Flower-stalk c 3 mm long. Calyx tube c 2 mm long, lobes very slender, c 5 mm long; corolla white, tube slender, cylindrical, c 1 cm long, lobes spreading, oblong, pointed, c 7 mm long.

* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.

Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.