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Melhania
Melhania is a genus of small shrubs or herbaceous plants. 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.
A 2021 study subsumed Trochetiopsis, which included several species endemic to Saint Helena, and Paramelhania, native to Madagascar, into Melhania. There is evidence from fossil pollen that the Trochetiopsis lineage has been on Saint Helena since the late Miocene (some 9.5 million years).
36 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Common Melhania
speciesMelhania prostrata
Melhania acuminata
speciesMelhania acuminata
Velvet Hibiscus
speciesMelhania oblongifolia
Melhania forbesii
speciesMelhania forbesii
Melhania rehmannii
speciesMelhania rehmannii
Saint Helena ebony
speciesMelhania ebenus
Melhania virescens
speciesMelhania virescens
Melhania futteyporensis
speciesMelhania futteyporensis
Melhania damarana
speciesMelhania damarana
Saint Helena Redwood
speciesMelhania erythroxylon
Melhania suluensis
speciesMelhania suluensis
Melhania velutina
speciesMelhania velutina
Melhania randii
speciesMelhania randii
Melhania ovata
speciesMelhania ovata
Melhania burchellii
speciesMelhania burchellii
Melhania incana
speciesMelhania incana
Melhania muricata
speciesMelhania muricata
Melhania phillipsiae
speciesMelhania phillipsiae
Dwarf ebony
speciesMelhania melanoxylon
Melhania didyma
speciesMelhania didyma
Melhania transvaalensis
speciesMelhania transvaalensis
Melhania tulearensis
speciesMelhania tulearensis
Melhania denhamii
speciesMelhania denhamii
Melhania integra
speciesMelhania integra
Melhania brachycarpa
speciesMelhania brachycarpa
Melhania humbertii
speciesMelhania humbertii
Melhania perrieri
speciesMelhania perrieri
Melhania polygama
speciesMelhania polygama
Melhania ambovombeensis
speciesMelhania ambovombeensis
Melhania menafe
speciesMelhania menafe
Melhania lisae
speciesMelhania lisae
Melhania fiherenanensis
speciesMelhania fiherenanensis
Melhania andrahomanensis
speciesMelhania andrahomanensis
Melhania corchoriflora
speciesMelhania corchoriflora
Melhania minutissima
speciesMelhania minutissima
Melhania polyneura
speciesMelhania polyneura
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 185886.