Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 639 (1753).

Derivation: Greek meli, honey; anthos, flower; alluding to the copious nectar secreted.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Honey flowers

Description:
Glabrous or variously hairy shrubs or undershrubs, often rather unpleasantly scented; leaves imparipinnate; petioles winged; leaflets deeply toothed.

Flowers 1-4 at each node of the racemes; calyx of 5 sepals, compressed, usually pouched at the base; petals usually 4, with a hairy claw; disk large, unilateral; stamens 4, with free filaments; ovary 4-lobed, 4-celled; ovules 2-4 in each cell; style terete, with short stigmatic lobes at the summit, persistent.

Capsule bladdery, reticulate, deeply 4-lobed, loculicidal; seeds black, shining.

Distribution:  6 species in South Africa.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:

1. Stipules free, subulate; leaves densely tomentose below	M. comosus 1.
1. Stipules united, broad; leaves glabrous below	M. major 2.

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