Commersonia craurophylla, commonly known as brittle leaved rulingia,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and endemic to southern continental Australia.

It is a dense, spreading shrub with crinkled, narrowly oblong to linear leaves, and white to cream-coloured flowers.

Flowering occurs from July to November and the fruit is a hairy, spherical capsule 3 mm (0.12 in) in diameter.

[3][4] This species was first formally described in 1875 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Rulingia craurophylla in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae,[5][6] but in 1882 he transferred it to the genus, Commersonia.

[9] Commersonia craurophylla grows in mallee woodland and is widespread between Kalgoorlie and Esperance and Coolgardie and Lake Grace in the south-west of Western Australia, and in isolated places in the south-east of South Australia, including on the Eyre Peninsula.