Melochia {genus} - Tracheophyta; Magnoliopsida; Malvales; Malvaceae;

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. The name "Melochia" comes from the Arabic name Mulukhiyah which in Arabic means mallow plants of the genus Corchorus (including Corchorus olitorius) which are cultivated as vegetables in Egypt (and elsewhere). The take-up of this Arabic Molokheya as a label for the Melochia mallow plants began with the Latin botanist Prospero Alpini (died 1617), who spent several years in Egypt in the 1580s, and Alpini's name was soon adopted by the botanists Johann Bauhin (died 1613), Caspar Bauhin (died 1624), and Johann Vesling (visited Egypt 1628; died 1649). full article at Wikipedia

Specimen Records: 45 Public Records: 35
Specimens with Sequences: 71 Public Species: 10
Specimens with Barcodes: 47 Public BINs: 0
Species: 12          
Species With Barcodes: 11          
           

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images representing subtaxa of Melochia
 (Melochia A.guadamuz404 - BioBot12841)  @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2010) Daniel H. Janzen Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund  (Melochia chamaedrys - Peru170248)  @11 [ ] CreativeCommons – Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike  Unspecified Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Museo de Historia Natural  (Melochia corchorifolia - DNAFR000925)  @11 [ ] Copyright (2014) Gujarat Biodiversity Gene Bank, GSBTM, DST, GoG Gujarat Biodiversity Gene Bank, GSBTM, DST, GoG  (Melochia pyramidata - Alvarez557)  @11 [ ] Unspecified (default): All Rights Reserved  Gerardo Salazar 2010 Unspecified
 (Melochia thymifolia - Peru18613)  @11 [ ] CreativeCommons – Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike  Unspecified Herbarium of South China Botanical Garden (Melochia tomentosa - BioBot00929)  @11 [ ] CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2010) Daniel H. Janzen Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund
  Sample ID:
BioBot00929
  License:
CreativeCommons - Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (2010)
  License Holder:
Daniel H. Janzen, Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund




Collected from 6 countries.
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Costa Rica11Brazil7Mozambique1
Mexico10India5United States1


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