Mellissia begoniifolia (Roxb.) Hook.f.
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Summary
Mellissia was formerly a monotypic genus in the family Solanaceae with the single species, Mellissia begoniifolia (Saint Helena boxwood), endemic to the island of Saint Helena. It was named by Joseph Dalton Hooker in honour of John Charles Melliss, a 19th-century engineer and amateur naturalist who worked on Saint Helena.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Mellissia", CC BY-SA 4.0.
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This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 7828820 (Withania begoniifolia (Roxb.) Hunz. & Barboza, 14 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.
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Names & registers
Also known as Physalis begoniifolia; Withania begoniifolia. (WCVP, RBG Kew)
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Mellissia begoniifolia (Roxb.) Hook.f. (plant_name_id 2508256), read from Kew's names filegbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 14 records of GBIF's key 7828820, Withania begoniifolia (Roxb.) Hunz. & Barboza (Kew's file holds it as Withania begoniifolia (Roxb.) Hunz. & Barboza (synonym under Mellissia begoniifolia (Roxb.) Hook.f.)): the GBIF downloadclimate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-224 in-range records, none placed to within 10 kmwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 816794-1, POWO 816794-1wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia redirects Mellissia begoniifolia to Mellissia, this species' genus (Q13033754), which holds one accepted species in Kew's WCVPinat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedcommons answeredasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.