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Zebrina pendula

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Name

Identification
Zebrina pendula Schnizl. [family COMMELINACEAE ]
Related name
  • Zebrina pendula
Common name
  • Wandering-Jew, Flora of North America Vol. 22
  • wandering Jew, inch plant (Bates)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for Tradescantia zebrina Hort ex Bosse [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 zebrina Hort ex Bosse [family COMMELINACEAE], Vollstandiges Handb. Blumengart., 4: 655. 1849
Zebrina pendula Schnizlein [family COMMELINACEAE]
Information
Herbs, decumbent. 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. Inflorescences terminal, consisting of pairs of sessile cymes enclosed in sheaths of spathaceous bracts, pedunculate; spathaceous bracts foliaceous, reduced. Flowers subsessile; sepals basally connate, 4--5 mm; petals pink, clawed, claws basally connate forming tube; stamens epipetalous; filaments bearded. Capsules 3-locular; locules 2-seeded.
Phenology
Flowering fall--winter (Sep--Feb)
Distribution
USA Fla.
Native/Introduced
introduced

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