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Tradescantia zebrina Bosse
Family Commelinaceae
Common name: Silvery Inch Plant

Tradescantia zebrina Bosse APNI*

Synonyms: Zebrina pendula Schnizl. APNI*

Description: Creeping, succulent herb; stems branching, rooting at the nodes, ascending at the flowering tips.

Leaves not petiolate, margins ciliate; lamina ovate to lanceolate to elliptic, acuminate, 2.5–6 cm long, 1.5–3 c. white, upper surface with silvery-white stripes; sheath membranous, 7–10 mm long, long-ciliate at the orifice and base.

Outer tepal tube 2–3 mm long; inner tepal tube 5–9 mm long, lobes ovate, pink to purplish. Stamens filaments bearded with purple hairs.

Seeds grey-brown.


Flowering: Flowers spring–summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Cultivated as an ornamental, occasionally naturalized in rainforest; coastal sites north from Minnamurra Falls, and in the Tamworth disitrict. Native of Mexico & C Amer.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *LHI
Other Australian states: *Qld *Qld
AVH map***

Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)


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