Melhania

<i>Melhania</i>

Melhania

Genus of flowering plants

Melhania is a genus of small shrubs or herbaceous plants.[1] 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.[1][3]

Quick Facts Melhania, Scientific classification ...

The following species are recognised by Plants of the World Online (POWO):

  • 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 (Cronk) Dorr – north-central and western Saint Helena
  • Melhania engleriana K.Schum. – northern Somalia
  • Melhania erythroxylon (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 Dorr – Madagascar
  • Melhania magnifolia Blatt. & Hallb. – northwestern India
  • Melhania mananarensis Arènes – Madagascar
  • Melhania melanoxylon (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

Melhania decanthera (Cav.) DC and M. laurifolia Bojer are now in Dombeya (as D. decanthera and D. laurifolia).[4]

A 2021 study subsumed Trochetiopsis, endemic to Saint Helena, and Paramelhania, native to Madagascar into Melhania.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    Verdoorn, I. C. (1981). "Revision of Melhania in southern Africa". Bothalia - African Biodiversity and Conservation. 13 (3, 4). Cape Town: AOSIS: 271–272. doi:10.4102/abc.v13i3/4.1315.
  2. [2]
    "Melhania Forssk". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  3. [3]
    Quattrocchi, Umberto (1999). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology. Vol. 3. CRC Press. p. 1650. ISBN 9780849326776. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  4. [4]
    Hinsley, Stewart R. (2009): Partial Synonymy of Melhania. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
  5. [5]
    Dorr, Laurence J.; Wurdack, Kenneth J. (February 2021). "Indo‐Asian Eriolaena expanded to include two Malagasy genera, and other generic realignments based on molecular phylogenetics of Dombeyoideae (Malvaceae)". Taxon. 70 (1): 99–126. doi:10.1002/tax.12370. ISSN 0040-0262. S2CID 228860710.


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