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Commersonia bartramia

(L.) Merr. (1917)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Malvales Family: Malvaceae Genus: Commersonia

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Specimens

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Interpr. Herb. Amboin.: 362 (1917)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Commersonia bartramia Waimea Arboretum & Botanical Garden, Haleiwa Preserved_Specimen Shrub 5' tall and 6' wide; lvs very light grey-green; flws sparse umbels of >40, 5-petalled, white, staminal (?) projection sideways between each petal; frts ripen black, ~2cm, with hundreds of soft shiny projections; seeds 1x2 mm, purple-brown Orr, D. 35 Oahu BISH 1995-10-24
2 Commersonia bartramia Ho'omaluhia Bot. Garden, H\MLE-1, the Melanesia section. Provenance: ex hort. Australia in a planter island at Pa Launa parking lot, close to main paved road Preserved_Specimen Spindly tree ca 2.5 m tall, with many dead branches and vigorous shoots from trunk and base; flowers in flat corymbs, axillary to leaves on upper branches, corolla white, 5-parted, with 5 ligulate appendages; fruits woody capsules, covered in straight spines, splitting at length into 3 locules Staples, G.W. 1633 Oahu BISH 2014-12-29
3 Commersonia bartramia Koloa District. National Tropical Botanical Garden in Lawai Valley. Maidenhair Falls Rubiaceae area Preserved_Specimen Tree 8 meters tall, trunk 10 cm dbh, bark smooth, gray. Leaves discolorous. Flowers white. Fruits green turning dark brown when ripe. Lorence, D.H. 8459 Kauai BISH 2000-02-01
4 Commersonia bartramia Koloa District, Lawai Valley. National Tropical Botanical Garden; Maidenhair Falls Preserved_Specimen tree of 10'; lvs dark mat green above, dull grey below with raised whitish veins; petals five, white. Flynn, T.W. 5550 Kauai BISH 1994-02-02
5 Commersonia bartramia Honolulu: Hoomaluhia Botanical Garden Preserved_Specimen tree 8 m; corollas white Miller, J.S. Oahu BISH 1992-08-02
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