Tradescantia reverchonii

Bush

14:190. 1904.

IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 22.

Herbs, erect or ascending, rarely rooting at nodes. Roots thick, fleshy, densely brownish-tomentose. Stems erect or ascending, unbranched or sparsely branched, 30–105 cm; internodes arachnoid-pubescent. Leaves spirally arranged, sessile; blade linear-lanceolate, 10–35 × 0.7–2.8 cm (distal leaf-blades equal to or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), apex acuminate, arachnoid-pubescent, especially on sheaths. Inflorescences terminal, often axillary; bracts foliaceous. Flowers distinctly pedicillate; pedicels 1–2.3 cm, pilose or villous with eglandular or mixed eglandular, glandular-hairs; sepals 5–14 mm, pubescent with mixture of glandular, eglandular hairs; petals distinct, bright blue-violet, rarely rose or white, broadly ovate, not clawed, 15–18 mm; stamens free; filaments bearded. Capsules 6–8 mm. Seeds 3–4 mm; hilum as long as seed. 2n = 12, 24.


Phenology: Flowering spring–summer (Mar–Jul).
Habitat: Sandhills with oaks, pine woods, rocky open woods, rarely seepage areas, and roadsides

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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... more about "Tradescantia reverchonii"
arachnoid-pubescent +
acuminate +
Robert B. Faden +
petiolate +  and sessile +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br />) +
linear-lanceolate +
succulent +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (2.8 cm28 mm <br />0.028 m <br />) +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
umbel-like +
Ark. +, La. +  and Tex. +
Sandhills with oaks, pine woods, rocky open woods, rarely seepage areas, and roadsides +
thyrsiform +  and cymose +
arachnoid-pubescent +
cauline +  and basal +
differentiated +
eglandular +  and mixed +
villous +  and pilose +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2.3 cm23 mm <br />0.023 m <br />) +
white +, rose +  and bright blue-violet +
distinct +
not clawed +  and ovate +
unequal +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (?) +  and 1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br /> (?) +
Flowering spring–summer (Mar–Jul). +
brownish-tomentose +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
distinct +
subequal +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br />) +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
staminodial +
branched +  and unbranched +
ascending +  and erect +
30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br /> (105 cm1,050 mm <br />1.05 m <br />) +
not +  and enlarged +
slender +
Rhoeo +, Setcreasea +  and Zebrina +
Tradescantia reverchonii +
Tradescantia +
species +
ascending +  and erect +