Tradescantia ozarkana

E. S. Anderson & Woodson

Contr. Arnold Arbor. 9: 56, plate 12, map 3. 1935.

IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 22.

Herbs, erect or ascending, rarely rooting at nodes. Stems not flexuous, 10–50 cm; internodes glabrous to pilose. Leaves spirally arranged, sessile; blade silvery or gray-green, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, 8–28 × 1–6 cm (distal leaf-blades wider than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base rounded to cuneate, apex acuminate, ± glaucous, usually glabrous. Inflorescences all or mostly terminal; bracts foliaceous. Flowers distinctly pedicillate; pedicels 2–3.2 cm, glandular-pilosulose; sepals 6–12 mm, sparsely to densely glandular-pilosulose; petals distinct, white or pale-pink to pale lavender, broadly ovate, not clawed, 1.2–1.6 cm; stamens free. Capsules 6–8 mm. Seeds 3–4 mm. 2n = 12, 24.


Phenology: Flowering spring (Apr–May).
Habitat: Rich woods, mainly on rocky slopes and along cliffs, occasionally in bottomlands

Discussion

Tradescantia ozarkana is endemic to the Ozarks.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Tradescantia ozarkana"
glabrous +  and glaucous +
acuminate +
Robert B. Faden +
E. S. Anderson & Woodson +
rounded +  and cuneate +
petiolate +  and sessile +
gray-green +  and silvery +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (28 cm280 mm <br />0.28 m <br />) +
lanceolate;linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong +
succulent +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
umbel-like +
Ark. +, Mo. +  and Okla. +
glabrous +  and bearded +
Rich woods, mainly on rocky slopes and along cliffs, occasionally in bottomlands +
thyrsiform +  and cymose +
glabrous +  and pilose +
cauline +  and basal +
differentiated +
glandular-pilosulose +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (3.2 cm32 mm <br />0.032 m <br />) +
pale-pink +  and pale lavender +
distinct +
not clawed +  and ovate +
unequal +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (?) +  and 1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br /> (?) +
Flowering spring (Apr–May). +
Contr. Arnold Arbor. +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
distinct +
glandular-pilosulose +
subequal +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
staminodial +
not flexuous +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (50 cm500 mm <br />0.5 m <br />) +
not +  and enlarged +
slender +
Rhoeo +, Setcreasea +  and Zebrina +
Tradescantia ozarkana +
Tradescantia +
species +
ascending +  and erect +