Commersonia prostrata

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Wikipedia links:       Angiosperms > Eudicots > Rosids > Malvales > Malvaceae > Commersonia   prostrata

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• A genus of 25 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae

• Plants in this genus are shrubs or trees, occurring from Indochina to Australia and have stems, leaves and flowers covered with star-like hairs

• The leaves are simple, often with irregularly-toothed edges, the flowers bisexual with five sepals, five petals and five stamens and the fruit a capsule with five valves

• The genus underwent a revision in 2011 and some species were separated from Commersonia, others were added from Rulingia

• The genus is named after Philibert Commerson (1727–73), a French naturalist who sailed with the Bougainville expedition in 1766 

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commersonia_prostrata (2023)