Entry for MELHANIA cyclophylla Hochst. [family STERCULIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 214, (1868) Author: (by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters).
Names
MELHANIA cyclophyllaHochst. [family STERCULIACEAE], Pl. Schimp. Abyss.
Information
Stock thick, woody, dividing above into a number of subcæspitose erect or spreading branches, sparsely covered with stelliform tomentum. Stipules setaceous, brown, deciduous. Leafstalks 1 in. long, rather shorter than the roundish crenate-dentate leaves, which are palmately 3–5-costate and slightly downy on both surfaces. Peduncles solitary, axillary, 1-flowered, as long as the adjacent leafstalks. Epicalyx of 3 lanceolate bracts, shorter than the lanceolate, acuminate sepals. Corolla when expanded an inch across. Capsule villose, shorter than the calyx. Seeds smooth.
