''Melhania rotundata'' is a plant in the family
Malvaceae, native to East Africa.
Description
''Melhania rotundata'' grows as a herb or subshrub up to tall, rarely to . The round to
ovate
Ovate may refer to:
*Ovate (egg-shaped) leaves, tepals, or other botanical parts
*Ovate, a type of prehistoric stone hand axe
*Ovates, one of three ranks of membership in the Welsh Gorsedd
*Vates
In modern English, the nouns vates () and ovat ...
leaves are
tomentose, coloured greyish-green. They measure up to long.
Inflorescences may have a solitary flower or be two or three-flowered with a stalk up to long. The flowers have bright yellow petals.
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Distribution and habitat
''Melhania rotundata'' is native to Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania.[ Its habitat is in ''Acacia-Commiphora'' bushland or woodland at altitudes of .][
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References
rotundata
Flora of Ethiopia
Flora of Kenya
Flora of Somalia
Flora of Tanzania
Plants described in 1868
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