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|accepted_name=Tradescantia leiandra
|accepted_authority=Torrey in W. H. Emory
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. H. Emory,Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, ...
|place=2(1): 224. 1859
|year=1859
}}
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Setcreasea leiandra
|authority=(Torrey) Pilger
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Commelinaceae;Tradescantia;Tradescantia leiandra
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Commelinaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tradescantia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tradescantia leiandra]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Roots </b>clustered, fibrous-thickened. <b>Stems</b> sparsely branched, 30–50 cm, tufted, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> spirally arranged, distant; blade not variegated, narrowly lanceolate, 7.5–16 × 1–2.5 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base symmetric, rounded to broadly cuneate, margins smooth or ciliate-scabrous, apex acuminate, glabrous to sparsely pubescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal; bracts very unlike proximal stem leaves, connate, ovate-lanceolate, 2.4–4.5 cm, base cordate, somewhat dilated. <b>Flowers</b> subsessile; pedicels densely covered with white, long, eglandular hairs or occasionally only with colorless, short, glandular hairs; sepals distinct, usually glandular-pubescent as well as villous; petals purplish red, clawed, claws connate basally forming tube; stamens epipetalous; filaments glabrous. <b>Capsules</b> 3.5 mm, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> 1.5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall (Jul–Oct).
|habitat=Moist, rocky places, on ledges, among shrubs and in canyons
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo Leon).
|discussion=<p>The plants from the Capote Falls region of Presidio County, Texas have pedicels with short, colorless, glandular hairs instead of long, white, eglandular hairs and were separated as <i>Tradescantia leiandra</i> <i></i>var.<i> glandulosa</i> Correll (D. S. Correll 1968).</p>
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name=Tradescantia leiandra
|authority=Torrey in W. H. Emory
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Setcreasea leiandra
|basionyms=
|family=Commelinaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall (Jul–Oct).
|habitat=Moist, rocky places, on ledges, among shrubs and in canyons
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo Leon).
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. H. Emory,Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, ...
|publication year=1859
|special status=
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|genus=Tradescantia
|species=Tradescantia leiandra
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