Pavetta kotzei

Pavetta kotzei, commonly known as the glossy bride’s bush or the glossy forest bride’s bush, is an evergreen, often decumbent shrub of about 2 m, or a small tree up to 4 m (SA Tree List. No. 717.3). The bark is pale grey and finely fissured on straggly and crooked stems. The smaller branches are knobbly from prominent leaf scars and the twigs dark green and hairless.

The species distribution is in the east of South Africa, from the east of the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga to the southeast of Limpopo, a South African endemic.

The habitat is forest understorey in mistbelt conditions. The habitat population is deemed of least concern early in the twenty first century (Coates Palgrave, 2002; Schmidt, et al, 2002; Van Wyk and Van Wyk, 1997; Pooley, 1993; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).