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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Malvaceae |
| Genus: | Melhania |
| Species: | M. ovata |
| Binomial name | |
| Melhania ovata | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Melhania ovata is a plant in the family Malvaceae.
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]
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]
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