Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Tradescantia spathacea
Commelinaceae Mirb.
Tradescantia spathacea Sw. , legitimate, scientific
Swartz, O. (1788), Nova Genera & Species Plantarum seu Prodromus: 57 [tax. nov.]
Stearn, W.T. (1957), Baileya; a Quarterly Journal of Horticultural Taxonomy 5: 198 [basionym]
basionym of: Rhoeo spathacea (Sw.) Stearn legitimate
Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Commelinaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 442 [nomenclatural synonym]
nomenclatural synonym of: Rhoeo spathacea (Sw.) Stearn legitimate
Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 420-421 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Rhoeo spathacea (Sw.) Stearn legitimate
  • APC Comment: Treated as Rhoeo spathacea on CoI and ChI by D.J.Du Puy & I.R.Telford in A.J.G.Wilson (ed.), Fl. Australia 50: 442 (1993).
  • APC Dist.: CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised)