''Platysace commutata'' is a shrub that is endemic to Western Australia. The shrub typically grows to a height of . It blooms between October and April producing white-cream and blue flowers. Often found among quartzite rocks on hill tops and summits it is distributed widely but with a scattered population from the

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down to the Great Southern region of Western Australia growing in sandy soils or granitic clays. The plant was first described by the

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Nikolai Turczaninow as ''Trachymene commutata'' in 1849 in the article ''Decas sexta generum plantarum hucusque, non descriptorum'' in the journal, ''Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou'' and later moved into the ''Platysace'' genera by C. Norman in 1939.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q17140597 commutata Flora of Western Australia Plants described in 1849