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Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.

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Tradescantia fluminensis Vell., Fl. Flumin. 140, t. 152 (1829)
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Pellegrini, M.O.O. 2018: Wandering throughout South America: Taxonomic revision of Tradescantia subg. Austrotradescantia (D.R.Hunt) M.Pell. (Commelinaceae). PhytoKeys 104: 1–97.
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Vell.
Vell.
Vellozo, J.M. da C. 1829: Florae Fluminensis, seu descriptionum plantarum praefectura flumiensi sponte nascentium liber primus ad systema sexuale concinnatus augustissimae dominae nostrae per manus. Typographia Nationali, Rio de Janeiro.
1829
140, t. 152
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Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
species
Tradescantia fluminensis
Lectotype (designated by Pellegrini et al. 2015). [illustration] Original parchment plate of “Flora fluminensis” in the Manuscript Section of the Biblioteca Nacional of Rio de Janeiro [cat. no.: mss1198652_156] and later published in Vellozo, Fl. Flumin. Icones 3: t. 152. 1831.

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Commelinales
Commelinaceae
Tradescantia
fluminensis

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Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. 1980: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. III. Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous and Spathaceous Monocotyledons. Government Printer, Wellington.

Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.

Trailing perennial with succulent stems, rooting readily at nodes, ascending above. Leaves 3-6 cm long, ovate-elliptic, acute, shining, very shortly petioled, leaf- and petiole-margins ciliate; sheaths 5-10 mm long, loosely clasping, hyaline, obviously ciliate. Flowers several in umbels with 2 unequal leaf-like bracts; pedicels slender, to 1.5 cm long; sepals green, c.7 mm long, ovate, hairy on keel; petals white delicate, c. 10 mm long, ovate to elliptic. Capsule not seen.

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Tradescantia albiflora Kunth
Tradescantia albiflora Kunth
Pellegrini, M.O.O. (2018)
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Biosecurity New Zealand (2008)
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Biosecurity New Zealand (2012)
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Biosecurity New Zealand (4 Aug 2011)
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Healy, A. J.; Edgar, E. (1980)
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Heenan, P.B.; Cheeseman, D.F. et al. (2023)
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Howell, C. (2008)
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Ministry for Primary Industries (23 Feb 2017)
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Pellegrini, M.O.O. (2018)

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Tradescantia albiflora Kunth
Brazil
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Tradescantia albiflora Kunth
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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Brazil
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New Zealand
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Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
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Canterbury Land District
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Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
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New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
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New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
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New Zealand
Nelson Land District
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New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
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Otago Land District
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New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
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Southland Land District
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Taranaki Land District
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Wellington Land District
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Westland Land District
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typification
Lectotype (designated by Pellegrini et al. 2015). [illustration] Original parchment plate of “Flora fluminensis” in the Manuscript Section of the Biblioteca Nacional of Rio de Janeiro [cat. no.: mss1198652_156] and later published in Vellozo, Fl. Flumin. Icones 3: t. 152. 1831.
Pellegrini, M.O.O.; Forzza, R.C.; Sakuragui, C.M. 2015: A nomenclatural and taxonomic review of Tradescantia (Commelinaceae) species described in Vellozo’s Flora fluminensis with notes on Brazilian Tradescantia. Taxon 64(1): 151–155.

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3177d8f2-22a2-4bb2-bb7a-db43dcd8da89
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1 January 2000
25 March 2022
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