Melochia villosa(Mill.) Fawc. & Rendle

WFO wfo-0000451939 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Melochia villosa, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. a Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / 2021-12-05 / obs. 173334522
Melochia villosa, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. b Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 170372456
Melochia villosa, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. c Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 170267357
Melochia villosa, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. d Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 170372554
Melochia villosa, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. e Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173349229
Melochia villosa, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. f Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173349175

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Also published as 40 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Malveopsis spicata f. aurantiaca Kuntze
  • Malveopsis spicata f. flava Kuntze
  • Malveopsis spicata var. ovata Kuntze
  • Malveopsis spicata var. pauciflora Kuntze
  • Melochia cephalodes K.Schum.
  • Melochia clinopodium A.St.-Hil. & Naudin
  • Melochia densiflora Miq.
  • Melochia hirsuta Cav.
  • Melochia hirsuta f. albiflora K.Schum. & Hassl.
  • Melochia hirsuta f. ferruginea K.Schum. & Hassl.
  • Melochia hirsuta f. minus-induta K.Schum. & Hassl.
  • Melochia hirsuta var. calophylla K.Schum.
  • Melochia hirsuta var. glabrata K.Schum.
  • Melochia hirsuta var. glabrescens (C.Presl) A.Gray
  • Melochia hirsuta var. grandiflora K.Schum.
  • Melochia hirsuta var. macrophylla K.Schum.
  • Melochia hirsuta var. paraguayensis Chodat
  • Melochia hirsuta var. rotundifolia K.Schum.
  • Melochia hirsuta var. tomentosa K.Schum.
  • Melochia jurgensenii (Turcz.) Hemsl.
  • Melochia lilacina A.St.-Hil.
  • Melochia scutellarioides (Turcz.) Hemsl.
  • Melochia serrata A.St.-Hil. & Naudin
  • Melochia subcordata Morong

and 16 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.