Melhania_ovata

<i>Melhania ovata</i>

Melhania ovata

Species of plant

Melhania ovata is a plant in the family Malvaceae.

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Description

Melhania ovata grows as a suffrutex (subshrub) or shrub up to 1 metre (3 ft) tall. The elliptic to ovate leaves are tomentose above and measure up to 8.5 cm (3 in) long. Inflorescences are two to three-flowered or have solitary flowers, on a stalk measuring up to 4.5 cm (2 in) long. The flowers have yellow petals.[2]

Distribution and habitat

Melhania ovata is native to tropical Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Pakistan.[1] In Pakistan, it was known from Balochistan but rare and considered possibly introduced.[3] Its habitat is in grassland and wooded bushland at altitudes of about 500–1,900 m (1,600–6,200 ft).[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Melhania ovata". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  2. [2]
    Cheek, Martin; Dorr, Laurence J. (2007). Beentje, Henk (ed.). Sterculiaceae – Flora of Tropical East Africa. Vol. 237. East African governments by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 9781842461853 – via Plants of the World Online.
  3. [3]
    "Melhania ovata". Flora of Pakistan. Retrieved 11 November 2019 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.


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