Image of Melochia speciosa S. Wats

Description:

Plants on coarse gravelly volcanic soil of wide, braided sheet-wash arroyo draining coastal plain between rhyolite hills. Sometime confused with(or merged into) M. tomentosa but leaves are greenish, stellate-puberulent, and not greyish canescent and densely tomentose as in M. tomentosa, among other differences.