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.
Synonyms
	Brotera Cav.; Cardiostegia C.Presl; Paramelhania Arènes; Pentaglottis Wall.; Sprengelia Schult. nom. illeg.; Trochetiopsis Marais; Vialia Vis.;

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).

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 × benjaminii (Cronk) Dorr – Saint Helena
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

Formerly placed here

Melhania decanthera (Cav.) DC and M. laurifolia Bojer are now in Dombeya (as D. decanthera and D. laurifolia).

References

1 2 3 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.
1 2 "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.
↑ 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.
↑ Cronk, Quentin (1990): The history of the endemic flora of St Helena: late Miocene Trochetiopsis-like pollen from St Helena and the origin of Trochetiopsis. New Phytologist 114: 159–165.
↑ Hinsley, Stewart R. (2009): Partial Synonymy of Melhania. Retrieved 9 February 2009.

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[Bothalia-1] 1 2 3 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.

[powo-2] 1 2 "Melhania Forssk". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 24 June 2023.

[CRC-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.

[Dorr_99–126-4] 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.

[5] Cronk, Quentin (1990): The history of the endemic flora of St Helena: late Miocene Trochetiopsis-like pollen from St Helena and the origin of Trochetiopsis. New Phytologist 114: 159–165.

[6] Hinsley, Stewart R. (2009): Partial Synonymy of Melhania. Retrieved 9 February 2009.

Melhania

Melhania oblongifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Subfamily:	Dombeyoideae
Genus:	Melhania Forssk.
Synonyms
Brotera Cav. Cardiostegia C.Presl Paramelhania Arènes Pentaglottis Wall. Sprengelia Schult. nom. illeg. Trochetiopsis Marais Vialia Vis.