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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Pavonia
|accepted_authority=Cavanilles
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Diss.
|place=2[app.]: [v]. 1786
|year=1786
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Malache
|authority=B. Vogel
|rank=genus
|publication_title=name rejected
|publication_place=
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lebretonia
|authority=Schrank
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Pavonia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pavonia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For José Antonio Pavón, 1754 – 1844, Spanish physician and botanist
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 215, 218, 298, 306
|treatment_page=page 305
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">[Herbs] subshrubs or shrubs, [perennial]. <b>Stems</b> usually erect [prostrate], often stellate-hairy, sometimes glabrate, not [sometimes] viscid. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules usually persistent (early-deciduous in <i>P. paludicola</i>), subulate to filiform; blade usually symmetric, ovate-triangular to hastate-oblong or ovate, not [sometimes] dissected or parted, base truncate to cordate, margins dentate or crenate to subentire. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal racemes [panicles, capitula], or axillary solitary flowers; involucel present, bractlets persistent, [4–]5–8[–18+], distinct. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx persistent, not splitting symmetrically, not spathaceous, not or scarcely accrescent, not inflated [somewhat inflated], lobes ribbed or unribbed, usually lanceolate-ovate; corolla rotate to tubular, lavender to pink or yellow [white, purple], petal bases auriculate or not; staminal column usually included [exserted]; style 10-branched, (2 per carpel); stigmas 10, capitate. <b>Fruits</b> schizocarps, usually erect, not inflated, not angled, often oblate, dry, [sometimes] indurate, minutely hairy or glabrous; mericarps 5, 1-celled, unornamented [sometimes winged], with spines, or otherwise ornamented, usually indehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> 1 per mericarp, glabrous or hairy. <b>x</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|distribution=s United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;s Asia;Africa.
|discussion=<p>Of the many species of <i>Pavonia</i>, more than 160 are South American; the genus is also well represented in Africa. The South American <i>P. multiflora</i> A. St.-Hilaire has been introduced to California gardens as an ornamental shrub; it is self-sterile and not known to have become naturalized.</p><!--
--><p>Species ca. 250 (4 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=fryxell1999a
|text=Fryxell, P. A. 1999. Pavonia. In: Organization for Flora Neotropica. 1968+. Flora Neotropica. 109+ nos. New York. No. 76.
}}
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades broadly ovate, margins obscurely dentate to subentire; inflorescences terminal racemes; petals pale yellow or yellow-green, 12–18 mm; stream banks and brackish estuaries.
|[[Pavonia paludicola|Pavonia paludicola]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades ovate to hastate, margins crenate or dentate; inflorescences axillary solitary flowers; petals yellow or lavender to pink, 15–25 mm; habitats away from coast
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Petals yellow; mericarps 3-spined, spines 6–7 mm, retrorsely barbed.
|[[Pavonia spinifex|Pavonia spinifex]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Petals lavender to pink; mericarps without spines
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blades ovate-triangular to hastate-oblong, petioles to 1/3 length of blades; calyces 6–8 mm; fruits 6 mm diam.
|[[Pavonia hastata|Pavonia hastata]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaf blades ovate, petioles 1/2–1 times length of blades; calyces 9–12 mm; fruits 8–9 mm diam.
|[[Pavonia lasiopetala|Pavonia lasiopetala]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Pavonia
|author=Paul A. Fryxell†;Steven R. Hill
|authority=Cavanilles
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=Lebretonia
|basionyms=Malache
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=s United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;s Asia;Africa.
|reference=fryxell1999a
|publication title=Diss.
|publication year=1786
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_555.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Pavonia
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