Melhania parviflora is a plant in the family Malvaceae, native to East Africa.
Melhania parviflora grows as a suffrutex (subshrub) or shrub up to 0.5m (01.6feet) tall. The elliptic, oblong or ovate leaves are velvety and measure up to 7cm (03inches) long. Inflorescences are two to four-flowered, or have solitary flowers, on a stalk measuring up to 2.2cm (00.9inches) long. The flowers have yellow petals.
Melhania parviflora is native to Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda. Its habitat is in Acacia-Commiphora woodland and coastal bushland to altitudes of about 1400m (4,600feet).