Melochia
Sign in to saveMelochia is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It comprises 54 species from the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, ranging from India eastwards through Malesia and the Pacific Islands to the Americas and the Caribbean.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMalvales
- FamilyMalvaceae
General: In New Guinea, Melochia is found on ridges, in savannah
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,644
- With media
- 680
- Family
- Malvaceae
- Collections
- FCN-UAQ, FC-UNAM, INECOL, CAS, IBUNAM
- Recorded in
- Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Hermannieae
- Image
- Melochia arborea Blanco1.189.png
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- Melochia
- taxon name
- Melochia
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Melochia
- taxonomic type
- Melochia corchorifolia
- taxon common name
- 马松子属
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Melochia is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It comprises 54 species from the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, ranging from India eastwards through Malesia and the Pacific Islands to the Americas and the Caribbean.
Some taxonomy books have placed genus Melochia in the family Sterculiaceae, but Sterculiaceae is now generally considered obsolete as a taxonomic class.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Melochia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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