Pavonia × gledhillii

Pavonia × gledhillii is an evergreen flowering plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae.

Pavonia × gledhillii
Close-up on flower
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Pavonia
Species:
P. × gledhillii
Binomial name
Pavonia × gledhillii
Cheek, 1989
Synonyms
  • Pavonia intermedia Hort. (non St.Hil.)

Etymology

The generic name honours Spanish botanist José Antonio Pavón Jiménez (1754–1844).[1] The epithet gledhillii come from Dr. David Gledhill, curator in 1989 of University of Bristol Botanic Garden.

Description

Pavonia × gledhillii is a 19th-century hybrid of Pavonia makoyana, E. Morrem and Pavonia multiflora, A. Juss., often incorrectly confused with Pavonia multiflora.

This subshrub is intermediate between the two species of origin in almost all respects, but it has nine to ten equal broad bracts and sub-entire leaf margins. It can reach a height of about 2 metres (6 ft 7 in). The unusual flowers are purple-grey enclosed within a bright red calyx. Flowering period is late Summer.

  • Flowers of Pavonia × gledhillii
  • Flowers
  • Close-up on flower
  • Leaves
  • P. x gl. as indoor plant

References
  1. Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names. III M-Q. CRC Press. p. 1981. ISBN 978-0-8493-2677-6.


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