Biology:Commersonia madagascariensis

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Commersonia madagascariensis
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Commersonia
Species:
C. madagascariensis
Binomial name
Commersonia madagascariensis
(Baker) C.F.Wilkins & Whitlock[1]
Synonyms

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 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]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q17579759 entry