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]
| Melhania | |
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| Melhania oblongifolia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Malvaceae |
| Subfamily: | Dombeyoideae |
| Genus: | Melhania Forssk. (1775)[1] |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Species
editThe 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
edit- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ "Melhania Forssk". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Hinsley, Stewart R. (2009): Partial Synonymy of Melhania. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
- ^ 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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