Melhania parviflora is a plant in the family Malvaceae, native to East Africa.

Melhania parviflora grows as a suffrutex (subshrub) or shrub up to 0.5 metres (2 ft) tall.

The elliptic, oblong or ovate leaves are velvety and measure up to 7 cm (3 in) long.

Inflorescences are two to four-flowered, or have solitary flowers, on a stalk measuring up to 2.2 cm (1 in) long.

[2] Melhania parviflora is native to Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.