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Commersonia bartramia, commonly known as brown kurrajong, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is native to Southeast Asia, the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales. It is a small tree or shrub with egg-shaped leaves, sometimes with irregular teeth on the edges and much paler on the lower surface.[2]

Brown kurrajong
Commersonia bartramia in West Java
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Genus:	Commersonia
Species:	C. bartramia
Binomial name
Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merr.[1]
Synonyms[1]
List Byttneria caledonica Turcz. Commerconia echinata F.Muell. orth. var. Commersonia echinata J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. nom. illeg., nom. superfl. Commersonia echinata var. bancroftii F.M.Bailey Commersonia echinata J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. var. echinata Commersonia echinata var. javana Miq. ex Gagnep. Commersonia echinata var. platyphylla (Andrews) Gagnep. Commersonia javensis G.Don Commersonia platyphylla Andrews Commersonia platyphylla β lechenaultii DC. Muntingia bartramia L. Restiaria alba Rumph. Restiaria echinata (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Kuntze

Taxonomy

Brown kurrajong was first formally described in 1759 by Carl Linnaeus who gave it the name Muntingia bartramia in Amoenitates Academicae.[3][4] In 1917, Elmer Drew Merrill changed the name to Commersonia bartramia in his book, An Interpretation of Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense.[5][6]

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