Commersonia tahitensis

Commersonia tahitensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the Society Islands. It was first formally described in 2004 by Laurence Joseph Dorr who gave it the name Commersonia bartramia var. tahitensis in the Flore de la Polynésie française.^[2] In 2011, Carolyn Wilkins and Barbara Whitlock raised the variety to species status as C. tahitensis in Australian Systematic Botany.^[1]

Commersonia tahitensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Genus:	Commersonia
Species:	C. tahitensis
Binomial name
Commersonia tahitensis (Dorr) C.F.Wilkins & Whitlock[1]
Synonyms[1]
Commersonia bartramia var. tahitensis Dorr