Cf. Commersonia bartramia or Commersonia macrostipulata (both closely related).
Comparing Commersonia bartramia and Commersonia macrostipulata (both closely related).
Different sized stipules provides the initial diagnostic feature to observe, check and photograph, for distinguishing these two species.
Relevant quotations from Guymer (2006):
Commersonia macrostipulata Guymer,
species nov. affinis C. bartramiae sed ab ea
stipulis ovatis vel ovati-lanceolatis, et foliis
marginibus leviter serratis et tomento abaxiali
subtiliter velutino differt.Affinities: Commersonia macrostipulata
is allied to C. bartramia but differs from
this species by its ovate to ovate-lanceolate
stipules, and leaves with shallowly serrate
leaf margins and finely velutinous abaxial
tomentum.Etymology: The epithet is derived from Latin
macro- (large) and stipulatus (with stipules),
referring to the conspicuous ovate to ovate-
lanceolate stipules that characterise the
species.
References:
• Guymer, Gordon P. (2006)
New species of Commersonia J.R. Forst. & G.Forst. (Sterculiaceae) from Queensland.
Austrobaileya 7 (2): 365–372.
Available free via Biodiversity Heritage Library, here:
→ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59896973
Page: 369, here: → https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59896977
• Wilkins, C. F., & Whitlock, B. A. (2011)
A revision of Commersonia including Rulingia (Malvaceae sl or Byttneriaceae).
Australian Systematic Botany 24 (5): 226–283.
→ https://doi.org/10.1071/SB10031_CO
(update corrigendum after: → https://doi.org/10.1071/SB10031 ).
• (furthermore for conferring): Wilkins, C. F., & Whitlock, B. A. (2011)
A new Australian genus, Androcalva, separated from Commersonia (Malvaceae sl or Byttneriaceae).
Australian Systematic Botany 24 (5): 284–349.
→ https://doi.org/10.1071/SB10032_CO
(update corrigendum after: → https://doi.org/10.1071/SB10032 ).
• Whitlock, B. A., Hale, A. M., Indorf, J. L., & Wilkins, C. F. (2011)
Polyphyly of Rulingia and Commersonia (Lasiopetaleae, Malvaceae sl).
Australian Systematic Botany 24 (5): 215–225.
→ https://doi.org/10.1071/SB09030
.
