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Setcreasea pallida

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Identification
Isotype of Setcreasea pallida Rose [family COMMELINACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Setcreasea pallida
  • Tradescantia pallida

Flora

Entry for Tradescantia pallida (Rose) D. R. Hunt [family COMMELINACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 22,
Names
Tradescantia pallida (Rose) D. R. Hunt [family COMMELINACEAE], Kew Bull., 30: 452. 1975
Setcreasea pallida Rose [family COMMELINACEAE], Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb., 13: 294. 1911
Setcreasea purpurea Boom [family COMMELINACEAE]
Information
Herbs, perennial, succulent. Stems suffused with purplish violet. Leaves spirally arranged; blade not variegated, suffused with purplish violet, lanceolate-oblong to oblong-elliptic, (4--)7--15 ´ 1.5--3 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base symmetric, rounded to broadly cuneate, margins ciliate or ciliolate, apex acute, glabrous or glabrescent. Inflorescences terminal, often becoming leaf-opposed, pedunculate; peduncles (3.5--)4--13 cm; bracts similar to leaves but usually greatly reduced. Flowers subsessile; pedicels 4--9 mm, densely white-pilose at summit; sepals distinct, 7--10 mm, pilose basally; petals ± connate at base, pink, clawed, 1.5--2 cm; stamens epipetalous; filaments very sparsely bearded. Capsules 3.5 mm, glabrous. Seeds 2.5--3 mm. 2n = 24 (Mexico).
Phenology
Flowering summer--fall
Distribution
USA Fla.USA La.
Native/Introduced
introduced

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