Tradescantia zebrina |
Tradescantia buckleyi |
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inchplant, wandering-jew |
Buckley's spiderwort |
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Habit | Herbs, decumbent. | |
Roots | tuberous, tufted. |
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Stems | loosely branched, to 50 cm, glabrous. |
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Leaves | 2-ranked; blade variegated, abaxially reddish purple, adaxially striped green and white, lanceolate-elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 3–9 × 1.5–3 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base oblique, cuneate, apex acute to acuminate. |
spirally arranged; blade not variegated, elliptic, to 12 × 3.5 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), succulent, base symmetric, rounded to broadly cuneate, margins ciliolate, apex acute, glabrous. |
Inflorescences | terminal, consisting of pairs of sessile cymes enclosed in sheaths of spathaceous bracts, pedunculate; spathaceous bracts foliaceous, reduced. |
terminal, pedunculate; peduncles 3–5.5 cm; bracts similar to leaves but somewhat smaller. |
Flowers | subsessile; sepals basally connate, 4–5 mm; petals pink, clawed, claws basally connate forming tube; stamens epipetalous; filaments bearded. |
subsessile; pedicels 0.7–0.8 cm, glabrous except for long silky hairs at summit; sepals distinct, base densely pilose, other surfaces sparsely pilose; petals ovate, clawed, 1 cm, claws basally connate forming tube, limb pale pink or whitish; stamens epipetalous; filaments bearded, antipetalous filament epipetalous, connective orange, broad; ovary densely bearded. |
Capsules | 3-locular; locules 2-seeded. |
subglobose, 3.5 mm diam., pubescent. |
Seeds | 2–3 mm. |
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Tradescantia zebrina |
Tradescantia buckleyi |
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Phenology | Flowering fall–winter (Sep–Feb). | Flowering mainly late winter–spring (Feb–May). |
Habitat | Hummocks and weedy places | Clay mounds in chaparral |
Distribution |
FL; native; tropical America [Introduced in North America] |
TX; Mexico (Tamaulipas) |
Source | FNA vol. 22. | FNA vol. 22. |
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Synonyms | Zebrina pendula | Setcreasea buckleyi |
Name authority | Hort ex Bosse: Vollstandiges Handb. Blumengart. 4: 655. (1849) | (I. M. Johnston) D. R. Hunt: Kew Bull. 30: 451. (1975) |
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