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Commersonia madagascariensis is a shrub or small tree in the mallow family, endemic to Madagascar, and little is documented about its cultivation. Most care guidance below is general knowledge about Commersonia and tropical Malvaceae rather than this species specifically.
Commersonia madagascariensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to Madagascar. It was first formally described in 1883 by John Gilbert Baker who gave it the name Rulingia madagascariensis in The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. In 2011, Carolyn Wilkins and Barbara Whitlock transferred the species to the genus Commersonia as C. madagascariensis in the journal Australian Systematic Botany.
Commersonia amystia · Commersonia apella · Brown kurrajong · Commersonia borealis · Commersonia breviseta · Commersonia corniculata · Commersonia corylifolia · Brittle Leaved Rulingia · Kerrawang · Commersonia densiflora · Commersonia erythrogyna · Commersonia gilva
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Commersonia madagascariensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
