Melhania
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 Angiosperm [Phylogeny Group|APG] and most subsequent systematics. The genus is named for Mount Melhan in Yemen.
Species
The following species are recognised by Plants of [the World Online] :- Melhania acuminata Mast. Angola, Zambia, and Mozambique to South Africa
- Melhania albiflora Exell & Mendonça – southwestern Angola
- Melhania ambovombeensis Arènes – Madagascar
- Melhania andrahomanensis Arènes – Madagascar
- Melhania angustifolia K.Schum. – Tanzania
- Melhania annua Thulin – central and southern Somalia to southeastern Kenya
- Melhania apiculata Baker f. – Madagascar
- Melhania beguinotii Cufod. – southern Ethiopia
- Melhania brachycarpa Domin – northeastern Queensland
- Melhania burchellii DC. – western Zimbabwe to Namibia and South Africa
- Melhania cannabina Wight ex Mast. – southern India, Yemen, Pakistan, and northwestern India
- Melhania didyma Eckl. & Zeyh. South Africa, Botswana, and Eswatini
- Melhania ebenus – north-central and western Saint Helena
- Melhania engleriana K.Schum. – northern Somalia
- Melhania erythroxylon – central Saint Helena
- Melhania fiherenanensis Arènes - Madagascar
- Melhania forbesii Planch. ex Mast. – southern tropical Africa
- Melhania fruticosa Arènes – Madagascar
- Melhania futteyporensis Munro ex Mast. – Pakistan to central India
- Melhania hamiltoniana Wall. – India, Myanmar, and southern China
- 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
- Melhania itampoloensis Arènes – Madagascar
- Melhania jaberi Abedin – Saudi Arabia
- Melhania javanica Adelb. – eastern Java to Lesser Sunda Islands
- Melhania kelleri Schinz eastern Ethiopia and Somalia
- Melhania latibracteolata Dorr – Ethiopia, Somalia, and northern Kenya
- Melhania lisae – Madagascar
- Melhania magnifolia Blatt. & Hallb. – northwestern India
- Melhania mananarensis Arènes – Madagascar
- Melhania melanoxylon – 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 Spreng. – Cape Verde and northern tropical Africa, 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 Noltie India
- Melhania somalensis Baker f. – southeastern Ethiopia
- Melhania spathulata Arènes – Madagascar
- Melhania steudneri Schweinf. – Northeastern tropical Africa
- 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 and Eswatini
- Melhania transvaalensis Szyszył. – South Africa
- Melhania tulearensis Arènes – Madagascar
- Melhania velutina Forssk. – Angola to Malawi and Sudan, southwestern Arabian Peninsula
- Melhania virescens K.Schum. Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa
- Melhania vohipalensis Arènes – Madagascar
- Melhania volleseniana Dorr – Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya
- Melhania zavattarii Cufod. – eastern and southern Ethiopia
A 2021 study subsumed Trochetiopsis, endemic to Saint Helena, and Paramelhania, native to Madagascar, into Melhania.