Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Tradescantia virginiana
Commelinaceae Mirb.
Tradescantia virginiana L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 288 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Habitat in Virginia"
Audas, J.W.C. & Morris, P.F. (1925), Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Victoria 23: 110 [secondary reference]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
orthographic variant: Tradescantia virginica L. orth. var.
  • APC Comment: Recorded by J.W.Audas & P.F.Morris, J. Dept Agric., Vic. 23: 110 (1925), but not known to be established in Australia. See J.G.Conran, Vict. Nat. 111: 205-207 (1994) for discussion.