Pavonia × gledhillii

Pavonia × gledhillii
File:Malvaceae - Pavonia × gledhillii-1.JPG
Close-up on flower of Pavonia × gledhillii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Subfamily:	Malvoideae
Tribe:	Hibisceae
Genus:	Pavonia
Species:	Pavonia × gledhillii
Synonyms
Pavonia intermedia Hort. (non St.Hil.)

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

Etymology

The generic name honours Spanish botanist José Antonio Pavón Jiménez (1754-1844). 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.

Gallery

• Malvaceae - Pavonia × gledhillii.JPG

  Flowers of Pavonia × gledhillii

• Pavonia × gledhillii.jpg

  Flowers

• 2007 pavonia intermedia 3.jpg

  Close-up on flower

• Malvaceae - Pavonia × gledhillii-2.JPG

  Leaves

• Pavonia × gledhillii indoor plant 2014.png

  P. x gl. as indoor plant

References

• M. Cheek - A New Name for a South American Pavonia (Malvaceae) - Kew Bulletin - Vol. 44, No. 1, 1989

External links

• Botanika Zahrada Liberec