Oblanceolate Pavetta (Pavetta oblanceolata)  

The Oblanceolate Pavetta is known only from the type material which was collected in 1847 in Kerala, India.

It was a shrub with terete branches and 17 cm long and 5 cm wide oblanceolate, shortly acuminate leaves, the flowers appeared in terminal, short peduncled cymes and were about 3 cm long and greenish-white.

The species appeares to be extinct. [1]

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References:

[1] Sharad Singh Negi: Biodiversity and Its Conservation in India. Indus Publishing 1993

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edited: 19.06.2020