Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merr.

Brown kurrajong (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Malvales > Malvaceae > Commersonia

Characteristics

Trees, to 15 m tall. Branchlets densely yellow puberulent. Stipules palmately fimbriate; petiole 0.6-1.8 cm, hairy; leaf blade broadly ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 9-24 × 5-14 cm, abaxially densely gray-white puberulent, adaxially sparsely stellate puberulent, base obliquely cordate, margin irregularly dentate and red ciliate, apex acute or acuminate. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, a compound cyme, 3-21 cm, many-branched. Flowers dense, ca. 5 mm in diam. Sepals 5, ovate, ca. 3 mm, puberulent. Petals 5, white, as long as sepals, base with 2 lateral lobes, apex beltlike. Stamens ca. 0.5 mm, each enclosed by base of subtending petal; staminodes 5, lanceolate, ca. 1.5 mm, both surfaces puberulent. Ovary with ovules 2 per locule. Capsule globose, ca. 2 cm in diam., 5-valved, densely long hispid. Seeds elliptic, black-brown, glossy. Fl. Feb-Oct.
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A tree. It grows 15 m tall. The small branches have yellow hairs. The leaves are broadly oval and 9-24 cm long by 5-14 cm wide. The fruit capsule is round and 2 cm across and have 5 valves. The seeds are narrowly oval and black.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 12.5
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JanFebMar
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OctNovDec
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Common understorey or sub-canopy tree of secondary and dry forest and patches of forest or thickets in grassland; occasional in garden and fallow areas, where it is an important pioneer species.
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It is a tropical plant.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses environmental use fiber food fuel invertebrate food material medicinal social use wood
Edible roots
Therapeutic use Diarrhea (unspecified)
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Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
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Images

Leaf

Commersonia bartramia leaf picture by Pablo Lizondo (cc-by-sa)
Commersonia bartramia leaf picture by val pejoh (cc-by-sa)
Commersonia bartramia leaf picture by Noel Dionson (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Commersonia bartramia flower picture by Pablo Lizondo (cc-by-sa)
Commersonia bartramia flower picture by Noel Dionson (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Commersonia bartramia world distribution map, present in Australia, Brunei Darussalam, China, Fiji, Micronesia (Federated States of), Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Philippines, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Thailand, United States of America, Viet Nam, and Samoa

Conservation status

Commersonia bartramia threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:822821-1
WFO ID wfo-0000617045
COL ID XFWB
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 448105
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Pimia rhamnoides Commersonia echinata Commersonia javensis Commersonia platyphylla Restiaria echinata Commersonia bartramia Muntingia bartramia Ricinus odoratus Byttneria caledonica Commersonia echinata var. bancroftii Commersonia echinata var. javana Commersonia echinata var. platyphylla