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Internal ID UUID643ffe45f1f84775391777
Scientific name Melhania velutina
Authority Forssk.
First published in Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. : 64 (1775)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Melhania ferruginea A.Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 76 (1847)
Melhania malacochlamys K.Schum. Monogr. Afrik. Pflanzen-Fam. 5: 13 (1900)
Pentapetes velutina (Forssk.) Vahl Symb. Bot. 1: 49 (1790)
Dombeya velutina (Forssk.) Willd. Sp. Pl., ed. 4 , 3: 726 (1800)

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  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Eritrea
      • Ethiopia
      • Somalia
      • Sudan
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Angola
      • Malawi
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Burundi
      • Rwanda
      • Zaïre

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000451950
Tropicos 30401683
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:824409-1
The Plant List kew-2508130
Open Tree Of Life 5762446
NCBI Taxonomy 1670866
IPNI 824409-1
GBIF 3670964
Wikipedia Melhania_velutina

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Naïve plant communities and individuals may initially suffer in the face of reintroduced megafauna: An experimental exploration of rewilding from an African savanna rangeland Young TP, Kimuyu DM, Odadi WO, Wells HB, Wolf AA PLoS One 06-Apr-2021
PMCID:PMC8023473
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0248855
PMID:33822786
Large herbivores maintain a two‐phase herbaceous vegetation mosaic in a semi‐arid savanna Augustine DJ, Wigley BJ, Ratnam J, Kibet S, Nyangito M, Sankaran M Ecol Evol 22-Oct-2019
PMCID:PMC6875565
doi:10.1002/ece3.5750
PMID:31788213
Multi-Plant or Single-Plant Extracts, Which is the Most Effective for Local Healing in Tanzania? Otieno JN, Hosea KM, Lyaruu HV, Mahunnah RL Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med 22-Jan-2008
PMCID:PMC2816543
doi:10.4314/ajtcam.v5i2.31269
PMID:20161933

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