''Melhania volleseniana'' is a plant in the family
Malvaceae, native to East Africa.
Description
''Melhania volleseniana'' grows as a herb up to tall. The
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 ...
to elliptic leaves measure up to long. The leaves are
pubescent The adjective pubescent may describe:
* people or animals undergoing puberty
* plants that are hairy, covered in trichomes
* insects that are covered in setae
In biology, setae (singular seta ; from the Latin word for "bristle") are any of a ...
above and
lanate (woolly) below.
Inflorescences may have a solitary flower or have two or three-flowered
cymes
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed on ...
on a stalk up to long. The flowers have yellow petals.
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Distribution and habitat
''Melhania volleseniana'' is native to Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. The species is only known from about 15 sites.[ Its habitat is in ''Acacia-Commiphora'' bushland or '' Combretum'' grassland at altitudes of .][
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References
volleseniana
Flora of Ethiopia
Flora of Kenya
Flora of Somalia
Plants described in 2007
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