Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Commersonia gilva
Malvaceae Juss.
Commersonia gilva C.F.Wilkins , legitimate, scientific
Wilkins, C.F. & Whitlock, B.A. (18 November 2011), A revision of Commersonia including Rulingia (Malvaceae s.l. or Byttneriaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 24(5): 259-261, Figs 17C (map), 19 APC [tax. nov.]
  • Type: Western Australia: on Mallee Road, NE of West River Road [precise locality withheld for conservation reasons], C.F. Wilkins 1854 & J.A. Wege, 24 Oct. 2003. Holotype: PERTH 07954255; isotype: BRI, CANB, DNA, K, MEL, NSW, PERTH.
misapplication: Rulingia parviflora Endl. legitimate by Blackall, W.E. & Grieve, B.J. (1974), How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the temperate regions of Western Australia 1, 2, 3: 355 misapplication: Rulingia parviflora Endl. legitimate by Grieve, B.J. (1998), How to know Western Australian wildflowers: a key to the flora of the extratropical regions of Western Australia Edn. 2, 2: 627
  • APC Dist.: WA
  • Etymology: From the Latin gilvus (pale yellow) in reference to the yellow flowers and golden-yellow hairs present on this species.