''Melhania'' is a
genus
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of small shrubs or herbaceous plants.
[ Traditionally included in the ]family
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Sterculiaceae Sterculiaceae was a family of flowering plant based on the genus ''Sterculia''. Genera formerly included in Sterculiaceae are now placed in the family Malvaceae, in the subfamilies: Byttnerioideae, Dombeyoideae, Helicteroideae and Sterculioideae.
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, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae
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in the APG and most subsequent systematics. The genus is named for Mount Melhan in Yemen.Plants of the World Online
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'' (POWO):Melhania apiculata
''Melhania'' is a genus of small shrubs or herbaceous plants. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. The genus is named for Mount Melhan in Yemen.
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'' Baker f.
*''Melhania beguinotii
''Melhania'' is a genus of small shrubs or herbaceous plants. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. The genus is named for Mount Melhan in Yemen.
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'' Cufod.
*'' Melhania brachycarpa'' Domin
*''Melhania burchellii
''Melhania burchellii'' is a plant in the family Malvaceae, native to southern Africa. It is named for the English explorer and naturalist William John Burchell.
Description
''Melhania burchellii'' grows as a shrub up to tall, with many branche ...
'' DC.
*''Melhania cannabina
''Melhania'' is a genus of small shrubs or herbaceous plants. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. The genus is named for Mount Melhan in Yemen.
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'' Wight ex Mast.
*''Melhania carrissoi
''Melhania'' is a genus of small shrubs or herbaceous plants. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. The genus is named for Mount Melhan in Yemen.
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'' Exell & Mendonça
*''Melhania corchoriflora
''Melhania'' is a genus of small shrubs or herbaceous plants. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. The genus is named for Mount Melhan in Yemen.
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'' Baill.
*''Melhania coriacea
''Melhania'' is a genus of small shrubs or herbaceous plants. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. The genus is named for Mount Melhan in Yemen.
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'' Chiov.
*''Melhania damarana
''Melhania damarana'' is a plant in the family Malvaceae, native to southern Africa.
Description
''Melhania damarana'' grows as a shrub tall, with several stems from a woody base. The leaves measure up to long and are densely stellate tomento ...
'' Harv.
*''Melhania decaryana
''Melhania'' is a genus of small shrubs or herbaceous plants. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. The genus is named for Mount Melhan in Yemen.
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'' Arènes
*''Melhania dehnhardtii
''Melhania dehnhardtii'' is a plant in the family Malvaceae. It is named for the German explorers Clemens and Gustav Denhardt.
Description
''Melhania dehnhardtii'' grows as a suffrutex (subshrub) up to tall. The elliptic to ovate leaves are t ...
'' K.Schum.
*''Melhania denhamii
''Melhania'' is a genus of small shrubs or herbaceous plants. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. The genus is named for Mount Melhan in Yemen.
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'' R.Br.
*''Melhania didyma
''Melhania didyma'' is a plant in the mallow family Malvaceae, native to southern Africa.
Description
''Melhania didyma'' grows as a low bushy shrub tall, sometimes to tall. It branches from near the base, with a woody main stem. The leaves ar ...
'' Eckl. & Zeyh.
*''Melhania engleriana
''Melhania'' is a genus of small shrubs or herbaceous plants. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. The genus is named for Mount Melhan in Yemen.
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'' K.Schum.
*''Melhania fiherenanensis
''Melhania'' is a genus of small shrubs or herbaceous plants. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. The genus is named for Mount Melhan in Yemen.
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'' Arènes
*'' Melhania forbesii'' Planch. ex Mast.
*'' Melhania fruticosa'' Arènes
*'' Melhania futteyporensis'' Munro ex Mast.
*'' Melhania hamiltoniana'' Wall.
*'' Melhania hiranensis'' Thulin
*'' Melhania humbertii'' Arènes
*'' Melhania incana'' B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn.
*'' Melhania integra'' I.Verd.
*'' Melhania itampoloensis'' (Hochr.) Arènes
*'' Melhania jaberi'' Abedin
*'' Melhania javanica'' Adelb.
*'' Melhania kelleri'' Schinz
*''Melhania latibracteolata
''Melhania latibracteolata'' is a plant in the family Malvaceae, native to East Africa.
Description
''Melhania latibracteolata'' grows as a Glossary of botanical terms#suffrutex, suffrutex (subshrub) up to tall. The elliptic to Glossary of bota ...
'' Dorr
*'' Melhania magnifolia'' Blatt. & Hallb.
*'' Melhania mananarensis'' Arènes
*'' Melhania menafe'' Arènes
*'' Melhania minutissima'' Hochr.
*'' Melhania muricata'' Balf.f.
*''Melhania oblongifolia
''Melhania'' is a genus of small shrubs or herbaceous plants. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. The genus is named for Mount Melhan in Yemen.
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'' F.Muell.
*'' Melhania orbiculari-dentata'' Arènes
*'' Melhania ovata'' (Cav.) Spreng.
*'' Melhania parviflora'' Chiov.
*'' Melhania perrieri'' Hochr.
*'' Melhania phillipsiae'' Baker f.
*'' Melhania poissonii'' Arènes
*'' Melhania polygama'' I.Verd.
*'' Melhania polyneura'' K.Schum.
*'' Melhania praemorsa'' Dorr
*'' Melhania prostrata'' Burch.
*'' Melhania quercifolia'' Thulin
*''Melhania randii
''Melhania randii'' is a plant in the mallow family Malvaceae, native to southern Africa. It is named for the English doctor and plant collector R.F. Rand (1856–1937).
Description
''Melhania randii'' grows as a small shrub tall, with several ...
'' Baker f.
*'' Melhania rehmannii'' Szyszył.
*'' Melhania rotundata'' Hochst. ex Mast.
*'' Melhania sidoides'' (Wight & Arn.) Noltie
*'' Melhania somalensis'' Baker f.
*'' Melhania spathulata'' Arènes
*'' Melhania steudneri'' Schweinf.
*'' Melhania stipulosa'' J.R.I.Wood
*'' Melhania substricta'' Dorr
*'' Melhania suluensis'' Gerstner
*'' Melhania transvaalensis'' Szyszył.
*'' Melhania tulearensis'' Arènes
*'' Melhania velutina'' Forssk.
*'' Melhania virescens'' K.Schum.
*'' Melhania vohipalensis'' Arènes
*'' Melhania volleseniana'' Dorr
*'' Melhania zavattarii'' Cufod.
''Melhania decanthera'' (Cav.) DC and ''M. laurifolia'' Bojer are now in ''Dombeya
''Dombeya'' is a flowering plant genus. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. These plants are known by a number of vernacular names which sometim ...
'' (as '' D. decanthera'' and '' D. laurifolia'').[Hinsley, Stewart R. (2009)]
Partial Synonymy of ''Melhania''
Retrieved 9 February 2009. 2021 study subsumed ''Trochetiopsis
The flowering plant genus ''Trochetiopsis'' consists of two extant and one extinct species endemic to the island of Saint Helena (South Atlantic Ocean). They were formerly placed in the family Sterculiaceae, but this is included in the expanded ...
'', endemic to Saint Helena
Saint Helena () is a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote volcanic tropical island west of the coast of south-western Africa, and east of Rio de Janeiro in South America. It is one of three constitu ...
, and '' Paramelhania,'' native to Madagascar into ''Melhania''.
References
Malvaceae genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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