Commersonia novoguinensis

Commersonia novoguinensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to New Guinea. It was first formally described in 1980 by Alexander Gilli who gave it the name Disaster novoguinensis in the Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. In 2005, Gordon P. Guymer transferred the species to the genus Commersonia as C. novoguinensis in the journal Austrobaileya.