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The genus Pavonia is in the family Malvaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

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Species in Pavonia

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Pavonia achanioides Griseb.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia acuminata (Cav.) Spreng.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia alba Seem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia alnifolia A. St.-Hil.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia angustifolia Benth.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia angustipetala Krapov. & Cristóbal	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia anisaster (Standl.) Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia apiculata R.E. Fr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia arachnoidea C. Presl	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia arachnoides C.Presl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia argentina Gürke	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia aspera Hassl.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia aurelii Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia aurigloba Krapov. & Cristóbal	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia bahamensis Hitchc.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia baillonii Hochr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia balansae Gürke	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia baumliana Fryxell	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia belophylla Hochr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia benadirensis (Mattei) Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia betonicifolia C. Presl	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia biflora Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia bullulata Hochr. ex Chodat & Hassl.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia burchellii (DC.) R.A.Dyer	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia calcicola (Britton) Ekman	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia calyculosa A. St.-Hil. & Naudin	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia cancellata (L.) Cav.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia candida (DC.) Fryxell	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia castaneifolia A.St.-Hil. & Naudin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia cauliflora (Nees & Mart.) Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia chlorantha (Kunth) Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia clathrata Mast.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia cochensis J.R.Johnst.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia columella Cav.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia communis A. St.-Hil.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia commutata Gürke	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia conferta A. St.-Hil.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia cryptica Krapov. & Cristóbal	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia cymbalaria A. St.-Hil. & Naudin	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia dasypetala Turcz.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia distinguenda A. St.-Hil. & Naudin	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia dregei Garcke	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia dusenii Krapov.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia erythrolema Gürke	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia eurychlamys Ulbr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia falconensis Fryxell	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia firmiflora Schery	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia flavispina Miq.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia flavoferruginea (Forssk.) Hepper & J.R.I. Wood	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia fonsecana (Standl.) Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia formosa Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia friesii Krapov.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia fruticosa (Mill.) Fawc. & Rendle	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia fryxellii Krapov.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia garckeana Gürke	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia geminiflora Moric.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia glazioviana Gürke	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia glechomifolia (A. Rich.) Garcke	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia glechomoides A. St.-Hil.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia glutinosa Krapov. & Cristóbal	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia gossweileri Exell	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia gracilis R.E. Fr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia grandiflora A. St.-Hil.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia guerkeana R.E. Fr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia hassleriana Chodat	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia hastata Cav.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia hexaphylla (S. Moore) Krapov.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia hieronymi Gürke	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia hirtiflora Benth.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia hoehnei Baker f.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia horrida Krapov.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia humifusa A. St.-Hil.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia imatacensis Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia insperabilis Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia integrifolia Standl.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia intermixta A. Rich.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia kleinii Krapov. & Cristóbal	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia laetevirens R.E. Fr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia lanata R.E. Fr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia lasiopetala Scheele	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia latifolia (Nees & Mart.) Spreng.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia leptocalyx (Sond.) Ulbr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia leucantha Poepp. ex Garcke	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia longifolia A. St.-Hil.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia luetzelburgii Ulbr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia macdougallii Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia macrostyla Gürke	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia makoyana E. Morren	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia malacophylla (Link & Otto) Garcke	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia martii Colla	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia mattogrossensis R.E. Fr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia missionum Ekman	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia mogotensis (Carabia) Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia mollis Kunth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia mollissima (Garcke) Ulbr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia montana Garcke ex Gürke	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia monticola Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia multiflora A. St.-Hil.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia mutisii Kunth	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia nana R.E. Fr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia narcissi Krapov.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia neei Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia nepetifolia (Standl.) Standl.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia opulifolia S. Moore	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia orientalis Krapov.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia oxyphylla (DC.) Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia oxyphyllaria Donn. Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia pabstii Krapov. & Cristóbal	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia paludicola Nicolson ex Fryxell	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia paniculata Cav.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia parva Ulbr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia patuliloba Hochr. ex Chodat & Hassl.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia pedersenii Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia penduliflora (Standl.) Standl.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia peruviana Gürke	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia piauhyensis Ulbr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia platyloba R.E. Fr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia pleuranthera (DC.) Fryxell	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia prionophylla R.E. Fr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia pseudotyphalaea Planch. & Linden ex Triana & Planch.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia psilophylla Ekman	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia purpusii Brandegee	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia ramboi Krapov. & Cristóbal	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia ramosissimum (Arechav.) Fryxell & Krapov.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia reitzii Krapov. & Cristóbal	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia renifolia Krapov.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia restiaria Bertoni	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia reticulata Garcke	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia revoluta Krapov. & Cristóbal	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia rhizophorae Killip ex Kearney	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia rhodantha Hochr.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia rojasii Hassl.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia rosa-campestris A. St.-Hil.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia rubra Krapov. & Cristóbal	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia sagittata A. St.-Hil.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia sapucayensis Hassl.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia schiedeana Steud.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia schimperiana Hochst. ex A.Rich.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia schininii Krapov. & Cristóbal	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia schrankii Spreng.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia schwackei Gürke	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia semiserrata (Schrad.) Steud.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia senegalensis (Cav.) Leistner	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia sepioides Fryxell & Krapov.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia sepium A.St.-Hil.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia setifer (C. Presl) Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia sidifolia Kunth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia spinifex (L.) Cav.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia spuria Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia stellata (Spreng.) Spreng.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia stenopetala Krapov.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia strictiflora (Hook.) Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia submutica Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia subrotunda A. St.-Hil. & Naudin	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia tricalycaris A. St.-Hil.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia troyana (Urb.) Urb.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia uniflora (Sessé & Moc.) Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia urens Cav.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Pavonia vannii Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia varians Moric.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia venusta Fryxell	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia viscosa A. St.-Hil.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia vitifolia Hochr. ex Chodat & Hassl.	Accepted		TRO
Pavonia xanthogloea Ekman	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 494 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pavonia. Of these 164 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 93 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pavonia. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 494 species names for the genus Pavonia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	164	33.2%
◕	Synonym	154	31.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	176	35.6%

All names

The status of the 587 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pavonia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	167	28.4%
◕	Synonym	244	41.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	176	30.0%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 494 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pavonia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	160	151	0	0	311	63.0%
	Low confidence	4	3	0	176	183	37.0%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Pavonia, are as follows: