Commersonia novoguinensis

Commersonia novoguinensis
Holotype in New York Botanical Garden
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Genus:	Commersonia
Species:	C. novoguinensis
Binomial name
Commersonia novoguinensis (Gilli) Guymer[1]
Synonyms[1]
Disaster novoguinensis Gilli

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.^[2][3] In 2005, Gordon P. Guymer transferred the species to the genus Commersonia as C. novoguinensis in the journal Austrobaileya.^[1][4]

References

1. "Commersonia novoguinensis". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
2. "Disaster novoguinensis". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
3. Gilli, Alexander (1979). "Beiträge zur Flora von Papua-New Guinea, II. Dicotyledones". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. 83: 454. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
4. Guymer, Gordon P. (2005). "New species of Commersonia J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. (Sterculiaceae) from eastern Australia and Vanuatu". Austrobaileya. 7 (1): 241. Retrieved 3 April 2023.