Pavetta kotzei leaves

Pavetta kotzei grows simple, opposite leaves, oblanceolate or elliptic in shape on petioles up to 1 cm long. The leaf tips are acutely pointed, the bases narrow and tapering, the margins entire. The stipules are conspicuous.

The slightly leathery but notably glossy blades are dark green above, paler to sometimes yellowish below. They have pale midribs and seven to nine pairs of ascending lateral veins sunken on the upper surfaces and curving in before the margin to join the next higher vein. The wavy surfaces also bear scattered, dark, dot-shaped, bacterial nodules and hair-tuft domatia in vein axils.

Leaf dimensions are 5 cm to 9 cm long and 1 cm to 2 cm wide (Coates Palgrave, 2002; Schmidt, et al, 2002; Van Wyk and Van Wyk, 1997; Pooley, 1993; iNaturalist).