Melhania

Melhania
Melhania oblongifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Subfamily:	Dombeyoideae
Genus:	Melhania Forssk. (1775) [1]
Synonyms [2]
BroteraCav. (1800) CardiostegiaC.Presl (1851) ParamelhaniaArènes (1949) PentaglottisWall. SprengeliaSchult. (1809), nom. illeg. Trochetiopsis Marais (1981) VialiaVis. (1841)

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]}

Species

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. laurifoliaBojer 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. 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. "Melhania Forssk". Plants of the World Online . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved 24 June 2023.
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. Hinsley, Stewart R. (2009): Partial Synonymy of Melhania. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
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.