Melhania

Accepted species 73 Documented here 6 Family Malvaceae

Accepted species 73 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Melhania prostrata Burch. 33 documented
Melhania forbesii Planch. ex Mast. 12 documented
Melhania oblongifolia F.Muell. 12 documented
Melhania incana B.Heyne ex Wight & Arn. 6 documented
Melhania acuminata Mast. 4 documented
Melhania futteyporensis Munro ex Mast. 3 documented
Melhania albiflora (Hiern) Exell & Mendonça 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania ambovombeensis Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania andrahomanensis Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania angustifolia K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania annua Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania apiculata Baker f. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania beguinotii Cufod. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania benjaminii (Cronk) Dorr 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania brachycarpa Domin 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania burchellii DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania cannabina Wight ex Mast. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania carrissoi Exell & Mendonça 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania corchoriflora Baill. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania coriacea Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania damarana Harv. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania decaryana Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania dehnhardtii K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania denhamii R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania didyma Eckl. & Zeyh. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania ebenus (Cronk) Dorr 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania engleriana K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania erythroxylon (G.Forst.) R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania fiherenanensis Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania fruticosa Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania hamiltoniana Wall. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania hiranensis Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania humbertii Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania integra I.Verd. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania itampoloensis (Hochr.) Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania jaberi Abedin 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania javanica Adelb. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania kelleri Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania latibracteolata Dorr 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania lisae Dorr 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania magnifolia Blatt. & Hallb. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania mananarensis Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania melanoxylon (Sol. ex Sims) R.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania menafe Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania minutissima Hochr. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania muricata Balf.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania orbiculari-dentata Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania ovata (Cav.) Spreng. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania parviflora Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania perrieri Hochr. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania phillipsiae Baker f. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania poissonii Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania polygama I.Verd. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania polyneura K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania praemorsa Dorr 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania quercifolia Thulin 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania randii Baker f. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania rehmannii Szyszyl. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania rotundata Hochst. ex Mast. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania sidoides (Wight & Arn.) Noltie 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania somalensis Baker f. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania spathulata Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania steudneri Schweinf. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania stipulosa J.R.I.Wood 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania substricta Dorr 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania suluensis Gerstner 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania transvaalensis Szyszyl. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania tulearensis Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania velutina Forssk. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania virescens K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania vohipalensis Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania volleseniana Dorr 0 below the evidence gate
Melhania zavattarii Cufod. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.