New species Pavonia fretensis is described from coastal regions in Yemen, Eritrea, and Somalia, indicating biodiversity in the Horn of Africa.
The new species Pavonia fretensis is described, illustrated by photographs and mapped. It occurs in coastal localities on both sides of the Bab al Mandab Strait and is known from southern Yemen, Eritrea and northwestern Somalia. The species differs from Pavonia rotundifolia from eastern Ethiopia and northern and central Somalia by having stellate pubescent pedicels, 9‒11 epicalyx bracts, longer calyx, white petals and mericarps with narrower wings.
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