Melhania

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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| image = Melhania plant.jpg

| image_caption = Melhania oblongifolia

| taxon = Melhania

| authority = Forssk. (1775)

{{cite journal | last = Verdoorn | first = I. C. | author-link = Inez Clare Verdoorn | year = 1981 | title = Revision of Melhania in southern Africa | url = https://abcjournal.org/index.php/abc/article/view/1315 | journal = Bothalia - African Biodiversity and Conservation | publisher = AOSIS | location = Cape Town | volume = 13 | issue = 3, 4 | pages = 271–272 | doi = 10.4102/abc.v13i3/4.1315| doi-access = free }}

| synonyms =

  • Brotera Cav. (1800)
  • Cardiostegia C.Presl (1851)
  • Paramelhania {{small|Arènes (1949)}}
  • Pentaglottis Wall.
  • Sprengelia Schult. (1809), nom. illeg.
  • Trochetiopsis {{small|Marais (1981)}}
  • Vialia Vis. (1841)

| synonyms_ref = {{cite web | title = Melhania Forssk.| work = Plants of the World Online | publisher = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | url = https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38767-1 | accessdate = 24 June 2023}}

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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.{{cite book | last = Quattrocchi | first = Umberto | date = 1999 | title = CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology | volume = 3 | pages = 1650 | publisher = CRC Press | isbn = 9780849326776 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=kaN-hLL-3qEC&pg=PA1650 | accessdate = 6 August 2019}}

Species

The following species are recognised by Plants of the World Online (POWO):

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Melhania decanthera (Cav.) DC and M. laurifolia Bojer are now in Dombeya (as D. decanthera and D. laurifolia).Hinsley, Stewart R. (2009): [http://www.malvaceae.info/Synonymy/Synonymy.php?genus=Melhania Partial Synonymy of Melhania]. Retrieved 9 February 2009.

A 2021 study subsumed Trochetiopsis, endemic to Saint Helena, and Paramelhania, native to Madagascar, into Melhania.{{Cite journal|last1=Dorr|first1=Laurence J.|last2=Wurdack|first2=Kenneth J.|date=February 2021|title=Indo-Asian Eriolaena expanded to include two Malagasy genera, and other generic realignments based on molecular phylogenetics of Dombeyoideae (Malvaceae)|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tax.12370|journal=Taxon|language=en|volume=70|issue=1|pages=99–126|doi=10.1002/tax.12370|s2cid=228860710|issn=0040-0262}}

References

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Category:Malvaceae genera

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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