Difference between revisions of "Tradescantia occidentalis"

(Britton) Smyth

Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 16: 163. 1899.

Basionym: Tradescantia virginiana var. occidentalis Britton
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Revision as of 15:57, 18 September 2019

Herbs, erect or ascending, rarely rooting at nodes. Stems 5–90 cm; internodes glaucous, glabrous. Leaves spirally arranged, sessile; blade linear-lanceolate, 5–50 × 0.2–3 cm (distal leaf blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), apex acuminate, glaucous, glabrous. Inflorescences terminal, often axillary; bracts foliaceous. Flowers distinctly pedicillate; pedicels 0.8–3 cm, glandular-puberulent, rarely glabrous or glabrescent; sepals 4–11 mm, glandular-puberulent, usually with apical tuft of eglandular hairs, occasionally with scattered eglandular hairs among glandular, rarely glabrous or glabrescent; petals distinct, bright blue to rose or magenta, broadly ovate, not clawed, 6–16 mm; stamens free; filaments bearded. Capsules 4–7 mm. Seeds 2–4 mm.

Discussion

All of the chromosome counts cited by E. Anderson (1954) for this species are attributable to Tradescantia occidentalis var. occidentalis.

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Sepals and pedicels ± uniformly glandular-puberulent, rarely nearly glabrous Tradescantia occidentalis var. occidentalis
1 Sepals and pedicels completely glabrous Tradescantia occidentalis var. scopulorum