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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Melochia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 674 [as 774]. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 304. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Broom-wood
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Moluchia
|authority=Medikus
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Physodium
|authority=C. Presl
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Byttnerioideae;Melochia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Byttnerioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Melochia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Arabic melóchich, name for Corchorus olitorius Linnaeus, a salad plant in the East
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 202, 208
|treatment_page=page 210
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or perennial, subshrubs, or shrubs [trees], erect, spreading, or decumbent, taprooted. <b>Stems</b> unarmed, hairy, hairs usually simple and/or stellate, sometimes also glandular. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate; stipules usually deciduous, linear-lanceolate; blade: margins rarely present; anthers 2-thecate; ovary 5-locular; ovules 2 per locule; styles 5, distinct or basally connate, filiform; stigmas included, decurrent on style, papillose. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, pyramidal and 5-winged, or schizocarps, subglobular and not winged, dehiscence loculicidal, sometimes also septicidal, fruit then falling apart. <b>Seeds</b> 1 or 2 per locule, obovoid, with 2 flat sides and 1 rounded, smooth; endosperm present, fleshy; embryo straight; cotyledon flat. <b>x</b> = 7, 9, 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=c;se United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia;tropical and subtropical areas.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 60 (4 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=goldberg1967a
|text=Goldberg, A. 1967. The genus Melochia L. (Sterculiaceae). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 34: 191–363.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Inflorescences: bracteoles at base of pedicel; fruits pyramidal, 5-winged, 7–14 mm diam
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Inflorescences: bracteoles immediately subtending flower; fruits subglobose, not winged, 2.5–6 mm diam
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades glabrous or glabrate, hairs mostly simple; inflorescences usually leaf-opposed; fruits often purple-blotched.
|[[Melochia pyramidata|Melochia pyramidata]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades tomentulose and canescent, hairs stellate; inflorescences usually axillary; fruits not purple-blotched.
|[[Melochia tomentosa|Melochia tomentosa]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Inflorescences spikelike; petals 8–11 mm; flowers dimorphic (pistil and stamens of unequal lengths varying inversely in different plants); fruits capsules.
|[[Melochia villosa|Melochia villosa]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Inflorescences terminal and axillary, cymose glomerules; petals 3–6 mm; flowers monomorphic (pistil and stamens of equal lengths); fruits schizocarps.
|[[Melochia corchorifolia|Melochia corchorifolia]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Melochia
|author=Aaron Goldberg†
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=Moluchia;Physodium
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=c;se United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia;tropical and subtropical areas.
|reference=goldberg1967a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_373.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Byttnerioideae
|genus=Melochia
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