''Melhania substricta'' is a plant in the family
Malvaceae, native to East Africa and Yemen.
Description
''Melhania substricta'' grows as a subshrub up to tall. The elliptic 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 greenish above. They measure up to long.
Inflorescences are solitary, or rarely two-flowered. The flowers have bright yellow petals.
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Distribution and habitat
''Melhania substricta'' is native to Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Yemen.[ Its habitat is in ''Acacia-Commiphora'' bushland or woodland at altitudes of . The species is only known from about ten sites and is considered vulnerable.][
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References
substricta
Flora of Eritrea
Flora of Ethiopia
Flora of Kenya
Flora of Somalia
Flora of Yemen
Plants described in 2007
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