Melochia

Accepted species 63 Documented here 10 Family Malvaceae

Accepted species 63 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
Melochia pyramidata L. 414 documented
Melochia tomentosa L. 267 documented
Melochia corchorifolia L. 108 documented
Melochia nodiflora Sw. 68 documented
Melochia umbellata (Houtt.) Stapf 13 documented
Melochia parvifolia Kunth 12 documented
Melochia lupulina Sw. 8 documented
Melochia melissifolia Benth. 6 documented
Melochia villosa (Mill.) Fawc. & Rendle 6 documented
Melochia anomala Griseb. 5 documented
Melochia odorata L.f. 2 below the evidence gate
Melochia chamaedrys A.St.-Hil. 1 below the evidence gate
Melochia hermannioides A.St.-Hil. 1 below the evidence gate
Melochia longidentata Goldberg 1 below the evidence gate
Melochia pilosa (Mill.) Fawc. & Rendle 1 below the evidence gate
Melochia savannarum Britton 1 below the evidence gate
Melochia arenosa Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia argentina R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia bernoulliana Donn.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia betonicifolia A.St.-Hil. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia betsiliensis Baker 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia bissei A.Rodr. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia canescens Cristóbal 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia caracasana Jacq. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia colombiana Cuatrec. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia crenata Vahl 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia degeneriana A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia gardneri Sprague 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia goldbergii Cristóbal 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia graminifolia A.St.-Hil. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia grayana A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia hassleriana Chodat 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia illicioides K.Schum. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia kerriifolia Triana & Planch. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia lanata A.St.-Hil. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia lanceolata Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia leucantha J.F.Macbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia longebracteolata Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia longepetiolata A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia manducata C.Wright 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia ministella Cristóbal 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia mollipila A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia mollis (Kunth) Triana & Planch. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia morongii Britton 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia nudiflora Standl. & L.O.Williams 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia oaxacana Dorr & L.C.Barnett 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia parhamii A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia peruviana Desr. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia pterocarpa Arènes 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia pulverulenta Miers 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia roseiflora A.C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia sergipana Monteiro 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia simplex A.St.-Hil. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia speciosa S.Watson 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia splendens A.St.-Hil. & Naudin 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia taiwaniana S.S.Ying 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia thymifolia (C.Presl) Goldberg 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia tomentella (C.Presl) Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia trujilloi J.B.Rondón & Cumaná 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia ulmifolia Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia urticifolia (Turcz.) Standl. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia villosissima (C.Presl) Merr. 0 below the evidence gate
Melochia werdermannii Goldberg 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.