Melhania ovataMelhania ovata is a plant in the family Malvaceae.DescriptionMelhania ovata grows as a suffrutex or shrub up to tall. The elliptic to ovate leaves are tomentose above and measure up to long. Inflorescences are two to three-flowered or have solitary flowers, on a stalk measuring up to long. The flowers have yellow petals.Distribution and habitatMelhania ovata is native to tropical Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Pakistan. In Pakistan, it was known from Balochistan but rare and considered possibly introduced. Its habitat is in grassland and wooded bushland at altitudes of about.