Compilation
Melhania volleseniana

Annual or perennial herb to 0.5 m tall; erect; stems whitish lanate. Leaves ovate to widely elliptic, 2.5–7 cm long, 1.5–4.5 cm wide, apex subacute, apiculate, or truncate, margin dentate to serrate, base truncate, weakly to strongly discolorous, green to greyish pubescent above, densely greyish-white lanate below, palmately 3–5-nerved from the base; petiole 0.5–3 cm long, whitish lanate; stipules filiform, 0.8–2 cm long, persistent, sparsely to densely whitish-stellate pubescent. Inflorescences 2–3-flowered cymes, or flowers solitary; peduncle 1–2(–3.5) cm long, ± 1.5 mm wide; pedicels to 1 cm long; peduncle and pedicels tomentose to lanate; epicalyx bracts subulate to linear or narrowly lanceolate, (8–)10–20 mm long, 1–2(–3) mm wide, most ± as long as the the sepals or slightly longer, tomentose, erect. Floral buds narrowly ovoid, the sepal apices free. Sepals subulate, (9–)11–18 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, long-acuminate, tomentose to lanate without and within above, glabrous toward the base, individual hairs long-stalked stellate. Petals obovate, slightly asymmetrical, 6–10 mm long, 3.5–4 mm wide, yellow or pale yellow, glabrous. Staminal tube 1–1.5 mm long, free portion of filaments ± 1.5 mm long, anthers ± 1.5 mm long, free portion of staminodes 4–6 mm long, glabrous. Ovary subglobose, 3.5–4 mm long, 3.5–4 mm in diameter, densely white-velutinous; 6 ovules per locule; style 2–3 mm long, sometimes with a few scattered white stellate hairs; stigma lobes 1–1.5 mm long, erect, becoming recurved. Capsules ovoid, 7–9 mm long, 6–9 mm in diameter, tomentose; 4(–6) seeds per locule; seed trigonal with two flat and one rounded surface, 1.5–2 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, tuberculate, without an elaiosome. Fig. 14/10–12, p. 85.