title: Melhania parviflora
text: # Melhania parviflora
  
  Melhania parviflora is a plant in the family Malvaceae, native to East Africa.
  
  ## Description
  
  Melhania parviflora grows as a suffrutex (subshrub) or shrub up to 0.5 metres (2 ft) tall. The elliptic, oblong or ovate leaves are velvety and measure up to 7 cm (3 in) long. Inflorescences are two to four-flowered, or have solitary flowers, on a stalk measuring up to 2.2 cm (1 in) long. The flowers have yellow petals.
  
  ## Distribution and habitat
  
  Melhania parviflora is native to Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda. Its habitat is in Acacia-Commiphora woodland and coastal bushland to altitudes of about 1,400 m (4,600 ft).
  
  