Commersonia madagascariensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Malvales |
Family: | Malvaceae |
Genus: | Commersonia |
Species: | C. madagascariensis
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Binomial name | |
Commersonia madagascariensis | |
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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.[2][3] In 2011, Carolyn Wilkins and Barbara Whitlock transferred the species to the genus Commersonia as C. madagascariensis in the journal Australian Systematic Botany.[1]