Melhania

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Melhania
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Dombeyoideae
Genus: Melhania
Forssk.
Species

Several, see text

Synonyms

Brotera Cav.
Cardiostegia Presl
Pentaglottis Wall.
Sideria Ewart & A.H.K.Petrie
Sprengelia Schult.
Vialia Vis.
[1]

Melhania is a flowering plant genus. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics.

Species include:

M. decanthera (Cav.) DC and M. laurifolia Bojer are now in Dombeya (as D. decanthera and D. laurifolia).[2]

Footnotes

  1. Hinsley (2007)
  2. Hinsley (2008)

References

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