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|accepted_name=Tradescantia gigantea
|accepted_authority=Rose
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contributions from the U. S. National Herbarium
|place=5: 205. 1899
|year=1899
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|hierarchy=Commelinaceae;Tradescantia;Tradescantia gigantea
|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 gigantea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> erect or ascending, rarely rooting at nodes. <b>Stems</b> 16–100 cm; proximal internodes glabrous, distal glabrous to densely eglandular-puberulent. <b>Leaves</b> spirally arranged, sessile (with sheaths &#177; saccate); blade linear-lanceolate, 10–40 × 0.5–2.5 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), glaucous, glabrous or adaxially densely and minutely eglandular-velvety. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, axillary; bracts reduced, bases saccate, minutely velvety. <b>Flowers</b> distinctly pedicillate; pedicels 0.9–2.8 cm, densely eglandular-puberulent; sepals 5–13 mm, densely, minutely eglandular-puberulent; petals distinct, magenta to blue or violet, broadly obovate, not clawed, 1.5–1.8 cm; stamens free; filaments bearded. <b>Capsules</b> 6–7 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 2–3 mm. <b>2n</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–May).
|habitat=Rocky limestone areas, pasturelands, weedy lots, roadsides, and along railroad tracks
|distribution=La.;Tex.
|discussion=<p>Plants of <i>Tradescantia gigantea</i> growing around Ruston, Louisiana may have originated from cultivated plants. They hybridize with <i>T. ohiensis</i> there.</p>
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name=Tradescantia gigantea
|authority=Rose
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Commelinaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring (Mar–May).
|habitat=Rocky limestone areas, pasturelands, weedy lots, roadsides, and along railroad tracks
|distribution=La.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Contributions from the U. S. National Herbarium
|publication year=1899
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Tradescantia
|species=Tradescantia gigantea
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