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Commersonia novoguinensis

Commersonia novoguinensis
Photo: New York Botanical Garden, CC BY 4.0
Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Papua New Guinea
Climate
wet tropical

About

Commersonia novoguinensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to New Guinea. It was first formally described in 1980 by Alexander Gilli who gave it the name Disaster novoguinensis in the Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. In 2005, Gordon P. Guymer transferred the species to the genus Commersonia as C. novoguinensis in the journal Austrobaileya.

Other Commersonia plants

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 novoguinensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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