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