
Commersonia bartramia

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.
Taxonomy.
Brown kurrajong was first formally described in 1759 by Carl Linnaeus who gave it the name "Mutingia bartramia" in "Amoenitates Academicae". In 1917, Elmer Drew Merrill changed the name to "Commersonia bartramia" in his book, "An Interpretation of Rumphius's Herbarium Amboinense".