5047.000 Melhania
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: 8 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 |
| acuminata × forbesii | SW | |
| 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 | Description, Image |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): MelhaniaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Melhania
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Melhania
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Melhania
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