''Commersonia bartramia'', commonly known as brown kurrajong, is a species of flowering plant in the family

Malvaceae Malvaceae, or the mallows, is a family of flowering plants estimated to contain 244 genera with 4225 known species. Well-known members of economic importance include okra, cotton, cacao and durian. There are also some genera containing familiar ...

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.

Taxonomy

Brown kurrajong was first formally described in 1759 by

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

who gave it the name ''Muntingia bartramia'' in ''

Amoenitates Academicae Amoenitates Academicae is the title of a multi-volume zoological and botanical publication (published during 1749–1790) consisting of the dissertations of the students of Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778 ...

''. In 1917,

Elmer Drew Merrill Elmer Drew Merrill (October 15, 1876 – February 25, 1956) was an American botanist and taxonomist. He spent more than twenty years in the Philippines where he became a recognized authority on the flora of the Asia-Pacific region. Through t ...

changed the name to ''Commersonia bartramia'' in his book, ''An Interpretation of Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense''.

References

bartramia Flora of the Northern Territory Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Plants described in 1917 {{Byttnerioideae-stub