Tradescantia crassula, Link & Otto, 1828

Pellegrini, Marco Octávio De Oliveira, 2016, A new species of Tradescantia L. sect. Austrotradescantia D. R. Hunt (Commelinaceae) from Southern Brazil, Phytotaxa 265 (1), pp. 79-84 : 83

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.265.1.8

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3B7B9931-FFB6-FF9D-8E9F-59FDFA05FB07

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Tradescantia crassula
status

 

Key to the Tradescantia crassula View in CoL group

1. Leaves distichously-alternate to spirally-alternate, blades with indumenta on both sides or only abaxially, rarely glabrous on both sides, secondary veins adaxially slightly impressed; pedicels and sepals velutine to glandulous to sparsely hispid to hispid, sepals without keels................................................................................................................................. Tradescantia cerinthoides Kunth View in CoL

- Leaves always distichously-alternate, blades glabrous on both sides, secondary veins adaxially inconspicuous; pedicels glabrous, sepals glabrous or with hairs restricted to the keel, sepals keeled..................................................................................................... 2

2. Leaf-sheaths margins glabrous, leaf blades base obtuse to cordate to slightly amplexicaulous, rarely cuneate; floral buds ellipsoid; sepals glabrous; petals light-pink to pink ..................................................................................... Tradescantia seubertiana M.Pell. View in CoL

2. Leaf-sheaths margins ciliate to setose, leaf blades base obtuse to truncate; floral buds broadly ovoid; sepals setose to sparsely setose along the keel; petals white............................................................................................ Tradescantia crassula Link & Otto View in CoL

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