5047.000 Melhania Forssk.

Description of the genus

Perennial herbs or shrubs, usually densely stellate-tomentose. Stipules linear, Leaves crenate-serrate or entire. Flowers yellow. Sepals 5, free almost to base. Bracts of the epicalyx 3, persistent. Stamens 5, alternating with 5 conspicuous staminodes. Ovary sessile, 5-locular. Stigmas 5, linear. Fruit a loculicidal capsule.

Worldwide: 60 species in the tropical Old World

Botswana: 7 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
acuminata Mast. var. acuminata	N,SE	Description, Image
acuminata Mast. var. agnosta (K. Schum.) Wild	SE	Description, Image
burchellii DC.	SW,SE	Description
forbesii Planch. ex Mast.	N	Description, Image
prostrata DC.	SE	Description, Image
rehmannii Szyszyl.	N,SE	Description, Image
virescens (K. Schum.) K. Schum.	N,SW

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ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Melhania
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Melhania
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Melhania
Wikipedia: Melhania
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Melhania
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Melhania