Melhania Latibracteolata
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''Melhania latibracteolata'' is a plant in the family Malvaceae, native to East Africa.


Description

''Melhania latibracteolata'' grows as a
suffrutex A subshrub (Latin ''suffrutex'') or dwarf shrub is a short shrub, and is a woody plant. Prostrate shrub is a related term. "Subshrub" is often used interchangeably with "bush".Jackson, Benjamin, Daydon; A Glossary of Botanic Terms with their Der ...
(subshrub) up to tall. The elliptic to ovate leaves are tomentose and measure up to long. Inflorescences are two to five-flowered, on a stalk measuring up to long. The flowers have pale yellow petals.


Distribution and habitat

''Melhania latibracteolata'' is native to Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. It is known from fewer than 10 sites. Its habitat is in ''Acacia-Commiphora'' bushlands at altitudes of about .


References

latibracteolata Flora of Ethiopia Flora of Kenya Flora of Somalia Plants described in 2007 {{Malvaceae-stub