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

Melhania volleseniana grows as a herb up to 50 centimetres (20 in) tall.

Inflorescences may have a solitary flower or have two or three-flowered cymes on a stalk up to 2 cm (1 in) long.

[2] Melhania volleseniana is native to Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.

[1] Its habitat is in Acacia-Commiphora bushland or Combretum grassland at altitudes of 290–700 m (1,000–2,300 ft).