Melhania ovata is a plant in the family Malvaceae.
Melhania ovata grows as a suffrutex (subshrub) or shrub up to 1m (03feet) tall. The elliptic to ovate leaves are tomentose above and measure up to 8.5cm (03.3inches) long. Inflorescences are two to three-flowered or have solitary flowers, on a stalk measuring up to 4.5cm (01.8inches) long. The flowers have yellow petals.
Melhania ovata is native to tropical Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Pakistan. In Pakistan, it was known from Balochistan but rare and considered possibly introduced. Its habitat is in grassland and wooded bushland at altitudes of about 500–.