Commersonia obliqua is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to Vanuatu.

Commersonia obliqua is a shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of 3–15 m (9.8–49.2 ft), its branchlets covered with soft, star-shaped hairs.

Flowering occurs from April to September and the fruit is a bristly capsule 27–32 mm (1.1–1.3 in) in diameter.

[2] Commersonia obliqua was first formally described in 2005 by Gordon P. Guymer in the journal Austrobaileya from specimens collected near Undine Bay in 1928.

[1][2] The specific epithet (obliqua) refers to the oblique leaf bases.