• Pavonia Cavanilles, 1786 [Family: Malvaceae]
• Pavonia d'Orbigny, 1846 † accepted as Pavonina d'Orbigny, 1826 [Family: Pavoninidae]
• Pavonia Godart in Latreille & Godart, 1824 accepted as Dasyophthalma Westwood in Doubleday & Westwood, 1851 [Family: Nymphalidae]
• Pavonia H.F.A. Roussel, 1806 accepted as Padina M. Adanson, 1763 [Family: Dictyotaceae]
• Pavonia Hübner, 1819 (uncertain) [Family: Saturniidae]
• Pavonia Lamarck, 1801 accepted as Pavona Lamarck, 1801 [Family: Agariciidae]
• Pavonia Ruiz in Ruiz & Pavón, 1794 accepted as Laurelia A.L. Jussieu, 1809 [Family: Atherospermataceae]
• Pavonia corymbosa (Sw.) Willd. accepted as Pavonia paniculata Cav.
• Pavonia fruticosa (P. Mill.) Fawcett & Rendle
• Pavonia hastata Cav.
• Pavonia laciniata Roussel, 1806
• Pavonia lasiopetala Scheele
• Pavonia obtusangula Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Psammocora contigua (Esper, 1794)
• Pavonia paludicola D.H. Nicolson ex Fryxell, 1989
• Pavonia paniculata Cav.
• Pavonia racemosa Sw. accepted as Pavonia paludicola D.H. Nicolson ex Fryxell, 1989
• Pavonia scabra K. Presl accepted as Pavonia paludicola D.H. Nicolson ex Fryxell, 1989
• Pavonia spicata Cav. accepted as Pavonia paludicola D.H. Nicolson ex Fryxell, 1989
• Pavonia spinifex (L.) Cav.
• Pavonia typhalaea
• Pavonia wrightii Gray accepted as Pavonia lasiopetala Scheele
• Pavoniaria Schinz in Cuvier, 1825 (uncertain)