''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.
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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 .][
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References
latibracteolata
Flora of Ethiopia
Flora of Kenya
Flora of Somalia
Plants described in 2007
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