Pavonia Cav.
Annual to perennial herbs or shrubs. Lvs usually angled or lobed. Fls axillary and solitary, or in infls with reduced lvs; epicalyx segments 5 or more, united in part or free; calyx evenly 5-toothed; petals spreading or closed. Style branches twice as many as loculi, clavate. Fr. of 5, 1-seeded, indehiscent, sometimes awned mericarps arranged in a single flat whorl and separating from axis at maturity.
c. 200 spp., tropical and subtropical. Naturalised sp. 1.
