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Kerrawang
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Kerrawang

Commersonia dasyphylla

Commersonia dasyphylla, commonly known as kerrawang, is a species of shrub of the family Malvaceae native to eastern Australia. It was initially described by Henry Cranke Andrews as Commersonia dasyphylla in 1810, and then placed in the genus Rulingia by Robert Sweet in 1826 where it remained until its original name was restored in 2011. The genus name commemorates 18th-century French naturalist Philibert Commerson, while the species name is derived from Ancient Greek dasys "hairy" and

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 914519.