- Family : STERCULIACEAE
(Sterculia Or Cocoa Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : COCOA FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : MALVACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Unresolved name
- Habit : Herb
- Habitat : Scrub and dry deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : On road clearings, hill slopes and open scrub jungles. Occasional weed
- Key identification features : Decumbent, suffruticose; Leaves ovate, flowesr yellow.
- Flower, Fruit : August-December
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
- Collection Date : 13/12/2014
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-209
- Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Nigidi forest, Anantapur district (AP)
- Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Guntur district, Kurnool district, Kadapa district, Anantapur district
- Karnataka : Ballari district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Chikkamagaluru district, Chitradurga district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district
- Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
- Tamil Nadu : Tiruchirapalli district, Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Madurai district, Ramanathapuram district, Salem district, Tirunelveli district
- Native : India
- World Distribution : India, Australia
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi;Rao & Razi, 1981 - Mysore; Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnata
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Melhania incana. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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