Melhania substricta is a plant in the family Malvaceae, native to East Africa and Yemen.

Melhania substricta grows as a subshrub up to 50 centimetres (20 in) tall.

The elliptic to ovate leaves are tomentose, coloured greenish above.

[2] Melhania substricta is native to Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Yemen.

[1] Its habitat is in Acacia-Commiphora bushland or woodland at altitudes of 400–500 m (1,300–1,600 ft).