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Queensland wandering sailor
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Queensland wandering sailor

Commelina lanceolata

Commelina lanceolata is a plant in the family Commelinaceae native to the Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia. It is a scrambling perennial herb first described by the Scottish botanist Robert Brown in 1810, who published his description in his work Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.

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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 369957.