Melhania

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Melhania plant.jpg | image_caption = ''Melhania oblongifolia'' | taxon = Melhania | authority = Forssk. (1775)<ref name=Bothalia> {{cite journal | last = Verdoorn | first = I. C. | author-link = Inez Clare Verdoorn | year = 1981 | title = Revision of ''Melhania'' in southern Africa | url = https://abcjournal.org/index.php/abc/article/view/1315 | journal = Bothalia - African Biodiversity and Conservation | publisher = AOSIS | location = Cape Town | volume = 13 | issue = 3, 4 | pages = 271–272 | doi = 10.4102/abc.v13i3/4.1315| doi-access = free }} </ref> | synonyms = *''Brotera'' Cav. (1800) *''Cardiostegia'' C.Presl (1851) *''Paramelhania'' {{small|Arènes (1949)}} *''Pentaglottis'' Wall. *''Sprengelia'' Schult. (1809), nom. illeg. *''Trochetiopsis'' {{small|Marais (1981)}} *''Vialia'' Vis. (1841) | synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo>{{cite web | title = ''Melhania'' Forssk.| work = Plants of the World Online | publisher = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | url = https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38767-1 | accessdate = 24 June 2023}}</ref> }}

'''''Melhania''''' is a genus of small shrubs or herbaceous plants.<ref name=Bothalia/> Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. The genus is named for Mount Melhan in Yemen.<ref name=Bothalia/><ref name=CRC>{{cite book | last = Quattrocchi | first = Umberto | date = 1999 | title = CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology | volume = 3 | pages = 1650 | publisher = CRC Press | isbn = 9780849326776 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=kaN-hLL-3qEC&pg=PA1650 | accessdate = 6 August 2019}}</ref>

==Species== The following species are recognised by ''Plants of the World Online'' (POWO): {{div col|colwidth=21em}} *''Melhania acuminata'' Mast. Angola, Zambia, and Mozambique to South Africa *''Melhania albiflora'' (Hiern) Exell & Mendonça – southwestern Angola *''Melhania ambovombeensis'' Arènes – Madagascar *''Melhania andrahomanensis'' Arènes – Madagascar *''Melhania angustifolia'' K.Schum. – Tanzania (Zanzibar) *''Melhania annua'' Thulin – central and southern Somalia to southeastern Kenya *''Melhania apiculata'' Baker f. – Madagascar *''Melhania beguinotii'' Cufod. – southern Ethiopia *''Melhania brachycarpa'' Domin – northeastern Queensland *''Melhania burchellii'' DC. – western Zimbabwe to Namibia and South Africa *''Melhania cannabina'' Wight ex Mast. – southern India (Karnataka and Tamil Nadu *''Melhania carrissoi'' Exell & Mendonça – southwestern Angola *''Melhania corchoriflora'' Baill. – Madagascar *''Melhania coriacea'' Chiov. – central and southern Somalia *''Melhania damarana'' Harv. – Namibia, Botswana, and Northern Cape Province *''Melhania decaryana'' Arènes Madagascar *''Melhania dehnhardtii'' K.Schum. – southeastern Kenya *''Melhania denhamii'' R.Br. – northern tropical Africa (Mauritania to Somalia), Yemen, Pakistan, and northwestern India *''Melhania didyma'' Eckl. & Zeyh. South Africa, Botswana, and Eswatini *''Melhania ebenus'' {{small|(Cronk) Dorr}} – north-central and western Saint Helena *''Melhania engleriana'' K.Schum. – northern Somalia *''Melhania erythroxylon'' {{small|(G.Forst.) R.Br.}} – central Saint Helena *''Melhania fiherenanensis'' Arènes - Madagascar *''Melhania forbesii'' Planch. ex Mast. – southern tropical Africa (Angola to Mozambique, Namibia, and Kwazulu Natal) *''Melhania fruticosa'' Arènes – Madagascar *''Melhania futteyporensis'' Munro ex Mast. – Pakistan to central India *''Melhania hamiltoniana'' Wall. – India, Myanmar, and southern China (Yunnan) *''Melhania hiranensis'' Thulin – central Somalia *''Melhania humbertii'' Arènes – Madagascar *''Melhania incana'' B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn. – southwestern Arabian Peninsula, Socotra, Somalia, and southern India *''Melhania integra'' I.Verd. – South Africa (Northern Province) *''Melhania itampoloensis'' (Hochr.) Arènes – Madagascar *''Melhania jaberi'' Abedin – Saudi Arabia *''Melhania javanica'' Adelb. – eastern Java to Lesser Sunda Islands (Timor) *''Melhania kelleri'' Schinz eastern Ethiopia and Somalia *''Melhania latibracteolata'' Dorr – Ethiopia, Somalia, and northern Kenya *''Melhania lisae'' {{small|Dorr}} – Madagascar *''Melhania magnifolia'' Blatt. & Hallb. – northwestern India *''Melhania mananarensis'' Arènes – Madagascar *''Melhania melanoxylon'' {{small|(Sol. ex Sims) R.Br.}} – northern Saint Helena *''Melhania menafe'' Arènes – Madagascar *''Melhania minutissima'' Hochr. – Madagascar *''Melhania muricata'' Balf.f. – northeastern Kenya, Somalia, Socotra, and southern Arabian Peninsula *''Melhania oblongifolia'' F.Muell. – Australia and southeastern New Guinea *''Melhania orbicularidentata'' Arènes – Madagascar *''Melhania ovata'' (Cav.) Spreng. – Cape Verde and northern tropical Africa (Mauritania to Tanzania), Arabian Peninsula, southern Pakistan, and southern India *''Melhania parviflora'' Chiov. – Ethiopia to Tanzania *''Melhania perrieri'' Hochr. – Madagascar *''Melhania phillipsiae'' Baker f. – Niger to Sudan and Kenya, Arabian Peninsula *''Melhania poissonii'' Arènes – Madagascar *''Melhania polygama'' I.Verd. – Kwazulu Natal *''Melhania polyneura'' K.Schum. – northwestern Tanzania *''Melhania praemorsa'' Dorr – Ethiopia, Somalia, and Northern Kenya *''Melhania prostrata'' Burch. – Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa *''Melhania quercifolia'' Thulin – Central and southern Somalia *''Melhania randii'' Baker f. – southwestern Tanzania to Eswatini *''Melhania rehmannii'' Szyszył. – Mozambique to Namibia and South Africa *''Melhania rotundata'' Hochst. ex Mast. – Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, and northeastern Tanzania *''Melhania sidoides'' (Wight & Arn.) Noltie India (Tamil Nadu) *''Melhania somalensis'' Baker f. – southeastern Ethiopia *''Melhania spathulata'' Arènes – Madagascar *''Melhania steudneri'' Schweinf. – Northeastern tropical Africa (Sudan to Somalia) *''Melhania stipulosa'' J.R.I.Wood – Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia *''Melhania substricta'' Dorr – Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Yemen *''Melhania suluensis'' Gerstner – South Africa (Mpumalunga and Kwazulu Natal) and Eswatini *''Melhania transvaalensis'' Szyszył. – South Africa (Northern Province) *''Melhania tulearensis'' Arènes – Madagascar *''Melhania velutina'' Forssk. – Angola to Malawi and Sudan, southwestern Arabian Peninsula *''Melhania virescens'' K.Schum. Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa (Northern Cape and northern Province) *''Melhania vohipalensis'' Arènes – Madagascar *''Melhania volleseniana'' Dorr – Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya *''Melhania zavattarii'' Cufod. – eastern and southern Ethiopia {{div col end}}

''Melhania decanthera'' (Cav.) DC and ''M. laurifolia'' Bojer are now in ''Dombeya'' (as ''D. decanthera'' and ''D. laurifolia'').<ref>Hinsley, Stewart R. (2009): [http://www.malvaceae.info/Synonymy/Synonymy.php?genus=Melhania Partial Synonymy of ''Melhania'']. Retrieved 9 February 2009.</ref> A 2021 study subsumed ''Trochetiopsis'', endemic to Saint Helena, and ''Paramelhania,'' native to Madagascar, into ''Melhania''.<ref name="Dorr 99–126">{{Cite journal|last1=Dorr|first1=Laurence J.|last2=Wurdack|first2=Kenneth J.|date=February 2021|title=Indo-Asian Eriolaena expanded to include two Malagasy genera, and other generic realignments based on molecular phylogenetics of Dombeyoideae (Malvaceae)|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tax.12370|journal=Taxon|language=en|volume=70|issue=1|pages=99–126|doi=10.1002/tax.12370|s2cid=228860710|issn=0040-0262|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Melhania Category:Malvaceae genera Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot