Melhania angustifolia
Melhania angustifolia is a plant in the family Malvaceae. It is endemic to Zanzibar.

Description
Melhania angustifolia grows as a suffrutex (subshrub) or shrub up to  tall. The ovate to oblong leaves measure up to  long. Inflorescences are two or three-flowered, on a stalk measuring up to  long. The flowers have bright yellow petals.

Distribution and habitat
Melhania angustifolia is native to the Zanzibar Archipelago where only seven specimens are known and the species is threatened by tourism-linked development. Its habitat is in bushland or on sand, near sea level.

References

angustifolia
Endemic flora of Tanzania
Plants described in 1900
Taxa named by Karl Moritz Schumann