# Melhania

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{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Melhania plant.jpg
| image_caption = ''Melhania oblongifolia''
| taxon = Melhania
| authority = [Forssk.](/source/Peter_Forssk%C3%A5l) (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'' <small>Cav. (1800)</small>
*''Cardiostegia'' <small>C.Presl (1851)</small>
*''Paramelhania'' {{small|Arènes (1949)}}
*''Pentaglottis'' <small>Wall.</small>
*''Sprengelia'' <small>Schult. (1809), nom. illeg.</small>
*''[Trochetiopsis](/source/Trochetiopsis)'' {{small|Marais (1981)}}
*''Vialia'' <small>Vis. (1841)</small>
| synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo>{{cite web | title = ''Melhania'' Forssk.| work = [Plants of the World Online](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online) | publisher = [Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew](/source/Royal_Botanic_Gardens%2C_Kew) | url = https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38767-1 | accessdate = 24 June 2023}}</ref>
}}

'''''Melhania''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of small shrubs or herbaceous plants.<ref name=Bothalia/> Traditionally included in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Sterculiaceae](/source/Sterculiaceae), it is included in the expanded [Malvaceae](/source/Malvaceae) in the [APG](/source/Angiosperm_Phylogeny_Group) 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](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online)'' (POWO):
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*''[Melhania acuminata](/source/Melhania_acuminata)'' <small>Mast.</small> Angola, Zambia, and Mozambique to South Africa
*''[Melhania albiflora](/source/Melhania_albiflora)'' <small>(Hiern) Exell & Mendonça</small> – southwestern Angola
*''[Melhania ambovombeensis](/source/Melhania_ambovombeensis)'' <small>Arènes</small> – Madagascar
*''[Melhania andrahomanensis](/source/Melhania_andrahomanensis)'' <small>Arènes</small> – Madagascar
*''[Melhania angustifolia](/source/Melhania_angustifolia)'' <small>K.Schum.</small> – Tanzania (Zanzibar)
*''[Melhania annua](/source/Melhania_annua)'' <small>Thulin</small> – central and southern Somalia to southeastern Kenya
*''[Melhania apiculata](/source/Melhania_apiculata)'' <small>Baker f.</small> – Madagascar
*''[Melhania beguinotii](/source/Melhania_beguinotii)'' <small>Cufod.</small> – southern Ethiopia
*''[Melhania brachycarpa](/source/Melhania_brachycarpa)'' <small>Domin</small> – northeastern Queensland
*''[Melhania burchellii](/source/Melhania_burchellii)'' <small>DC.</small> – western Zimbabwe to Namibia and South Africa
*''[Melhania cannabina](/source/Melhania_cannabina)'' <small>Wight ex Mast.</small> – southern India (Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
*''[Melhania carrissoi](/source/Melhania_carrissoi)'' <small>Exell & Mendonça</small> – southwestern Angola
*''[Melhania corchoriflora](/source/Melhania_corchoriflora)'' <small>Baill.</small> – Madagascar
*''[Melhania coriacea](/source/Melhania_coriacea)'' <small>Chiov.</small> – central and southern Somalia
*''[Melhania damarana](/source/Melhania_damarana)'' <small>Harv.</small> – Namibia, Botswana, and Northern Cape Province
*''[Melhania decaryana](/source/Melhania_decaryana)'' <small>Arènes</small> Madagascar
*''[Melhania dehnhardtii](/source/Melhania_dehnhardtii)'' <small>K.Schum.</small> – southeastern Kenya
*''[Melhania denhamii](/source/Melhania_denhamii)'' <small>R.Br.</small> – northern tropical Africa (Mauritania to Somalia), Yemen, Pakistan, and northwestern India
*''[Melhania didyma](/source/Melhania_didyma)'' <small>Eckl. & Zeyh.</small> South Africa, Botswana, and Eswatini
*''[Melhania ebenus](/source/Melhania_ebenus)'' {{small|(Cronk) [Dorr](/source/Laurence_Joseph_Dorr)}} – north-central and western Saint Helena
*''[Melhania engleriana](/source/Melhania_engleriana)'' <small>K.Schum.</small> – northern Somalia
*''[Melhania erythroxylon](/source/Melhania_erythroxylon)'' {{small|(G.Forst.) R.Br.}} – central Saint Helena
*''[Melhania fiherenanensis](/source/Melhania_fiherenanensis)'' <small>Arènes</small> - Madagascar
*''[Melhania forbesii](/source/Melhania_forbesii)'' <small>Planch. ex Mast.</small> – southern tropical Africa (Angola to Mozambique, Namibia, and Kwazulu Natal)
*''[Melhania fruticosa](/source/Melhania_fruticosa)'' <small>Arènes</small> – Madagascar
*''[Melhania futteyporensis](/source/Melhania_futteyporensis)'' <small>Munro ex Mast.</small> – Pakistan to central India
*''[Melhania hamiltoniana](/source/Melhania_hamiltoniana)'' <small>Wall.</small> – India, Myanmar, and southern China (Yunnan)
*''[Melhania hiranensis](/source/Melhania_hiranensis)'' <small>Thulin</small> – central Somalia
*''[Melhania humbertii](/source/Melhania_humbertii)'' <small>Arènes</small> – Madagascar
*''[Melhania incana](/source/Melhania_incana)'' <small>B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn.</small> – southwestern Arabian Peninsula, Socotra, Somalia, and southern India
*''[Melhania integra](/source/Melhania_integra)'' <small>I.Verd.</small> – South Africa (Northern Province)
*''[Melhania itampoloensis](/source/Melhania_itampoloensis)'' <small>(Hochr.) Arènes</small> – Madagascar
*''[Melhania jaberi](/source/Melhania_jaberi)'' <small>Abedin</small> – Saudi Arabia
*''[Melhania javanica](/source/Melhania_javanica)'' <small>Adelb.</small> – eastern Java to Lesser Sunda Islands (Timor)
*''[Melhania kelleri](/source/Melhania_kelleri)'' <small>Schinz</small> eastern Ethiopia and Somalia
*''[Melhania latibracteolata](/source/Melhania_latibracteolata)'' <small>Dorr</small> – Ethiopia, Somalia, and northern Kenya
*''[Melhania lisae](/source/Melhania_lisae)'' {{small|Dorr}} – Madagascar
*''[Melhania magnifolia](/source/Melhania_magnifolia)'' <small>Blatt. & Hallb.</small> – northwestern India
*''[Melhania mananarensis](/source/Melhania_mananarensis)'' <small>Arènes</small> – Madagascar
*''[Melhania melanoxylon](/source/Melhania_melanoxylon)'' {{small|(Sol. ex Sims) R.Br.}} – northern Saint Helena
*''[Melhania menafe](/source/Melhania_menafe)'' <small>Arènes</small> – Madagascar
*''[Melhania minutissima](/source/Melhania_minutissima)'' <small>Hochr.</small> – Madagascar
*''[Melhania muricata](/source/Melhania_muricata)'' <small>Balf.f.</small> – northeastern Kenya, Somalia, Socotra, and southern Arabian Peninsula
*''[Melhania oblongifolia](/source/Melhania_oblongifolia)'' <small>F.Muell.</small> – Australia and southeastern New Guinea
*''[Melhania orbicularidentata](/source/Melhania_orbicularidentata)'' <small>Arènes</small> – Madagascar
*''[Melhania ovata](/source/Melhania_ovata)'' <small>(Cav.) Spreng.</small> – Cape Verde and northern tropical Africa (Mauritania to Tanzania), Arabian Peninsula, southern Pakistan, and southern India 
*''[Melhania parviflora](/source/Melhania_parviflora)'' <small>Chiov.</small> – Ethiopia to Tanzania
*''[Melhania perrieri](/source/Melhania_perrieri)'' <small>Hochr.</small> – Madagascar
*''[Melhania phillipsiae](/source/Melhania_phillipsiae)'' <small>Baker f.</small> – Niger to Sudan and Kenya, Arabian Peninsula
*''[Melhania poissonii](/source/Melhania_poissonii)'' <small>Arènes</small> – Madagascar
*''[Melhania polygama](/source/Melhania_polygama)'' <small>I.Verd.</small> – Kwazulu Natal
*''[Melhania polyneura](/source/Melhania_polyneura)'' <small>K.Schum.</small> – northwestern Tanzania
*''[Melhania praemorsa](/source/Melhania_praemorsa)'' <small>Dorr</small> – Ethiopia, Somalia, and Northern Kenya
*''[Melhania prostrata](/source/Melhania_prostrata)'' <small>Burch.</small> – Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa
*''[Melhania quercifolia](/source/Melhania_quercifolia)'' <small>Thulin</small> – Central and southern Somalia
*''[Melhania randii](/source/Melhania_randii)'' <small>Baker f.</small> – southwestern Tanzania to Eswatini
*''[Melhania rehmannii](/source/Melhania_rehmannii)'' <small>Szyszył.</small> – Mozambique to Namibia and South Africa
*''[Melhania rotundata](/source/Melhania_rotundata)'' <small>Hochst. ex Mast.</small> – Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, and northeastern Tanzania
*''[Melhania sidoides](/source/Melhania_sidoides)'' <small>(Wight & Arn.) Noltie</small> India (Tamil Nadu)
*''[Melhania somalensis](/source/Melhania_somalensis)'' <small>Baker f.</small> – southeastern Ethiopia
*''[Melhania spathulata](/source/Melhania_spathulata)'' <small>Arènes</small> – Madagascar
*''[Melhania steudneri](/source/Melhania_steudneri)'' <small>Schweinf.</small> – Northeastern tropical Africa (Sudan to Somalia)
*''[Melhania stipulosa](/source/Melhania_stipulosa)'' <small>J.R.I.Wood</small> – Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia
*''[Melhania substricta](/source/Melhania_substricta)'' <small>Dorr</small> – Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Yemen
*''[Melhania suluensis](/source/Melhania_suluensis)'' <small>Gerstner</small> – South Africa (Mpumalunga and Kwazulu Natal) and Eswatini
*''[Melhania transvaalensis](/source/Melhania_transvaalensis)'' <small>Szyszył.</small> – South Africa (Northern Province)
*''[Melhania tulearensis](/source/Melhania_tulearensis)'' <small>Arènes</small> – Madagascar
*''[Melhania velutina](/source/Melhania_velutina)'' <small>Forssk.</small> – Angola to Malawi and Sudan, southwestern Arabian Peninsula 
*''[Melhania virescens](/source/Melhania_virescens)'' <small>K.Schum.</small> Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa (Northern Cape and northern Province)
*''[Melhania vohipalensis](/source/Melhania_vohipalensis)'' <small>Arènes</small> – Madagascar
*''[Melhania volleseniana](/source/Melhania_volleseniana)'' <small>Dorr</small> – Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya
*''[Melhania zavattarii](/source/Melhania_zavattarii)'' <small>Cufod.</small> – eastern and southern Ethiopia
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''Melhania decanthera'' <small>(Cav.) DC</small> and ''M. laurifolia'' <small>Bojer</small> are now in ''[Dombeya](/source/Dombeya)'' (as ''[D. decanthera](/source/Dombeya_decanthera)'' and ''[D. laurifolia](/source/Dombeya_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](/source/Trochetiopsis)'', endemic to [Saint Helena](/source/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==
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