Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Division Tracheophyta > Subdivision Spermatophytina > Class Magnoliopsida > Superorder Lilianae > Order Commelinales > Family Commelinaceae

Tradescantia Ruppius ex L.

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Campelia Rich. heterotypic synonym
Cymbispatha Pichon heterotypic synonym
Disgrega Hassk. heterotypic synonym
Ephemerum Mill. heterotypic synonym
Etheosanthes Raf. heterotypic synonym
Gonatandra Schltdl. heterotypic synonym
Heminema Raf. heterotypic synonym
Heterachthia Kunze heterotypic synonym
Knowlesia Hassk. heterotypic synonym
Mandonia Hassk. heterotypic synonym; nom. illeg.
Neomandonia Hutch. heterotypic synonym
Neotreleasea Rose heterotypic synonym
Rhoeo Hance heterotypic synonym
Sarcoperis Raf. heterotypic synonym
Separotheca Waterf. heterotypic synonym
Setcreasea K. Schum. & Syd. heterotypic synonym
Skofitzia Hassk. & Kanitz heterotypic synonym
Treleasea Rose heterotypic synonym; nom. illeg.
Tropitria Raf. heterotypic synonym
Zanonia Plum. ex Cramer heterotypic synonym
Zebrina Schnizl. heterotypic synonym

Children

Tradescantia cerinthoides Kunth
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Tradescantia pallida (Rose) D. R. Hunt
Tradescantia virginiana L.
Tradescantia zebrina Bosse

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 English-United States: spiderworts sources: Charles Hussey
 Norwegian Bokmål: vandrejødeslekta
 Norwegian Nynorsk: vandrejødeslekta
 Swedish: båtblommor

Literature

nomenclatural reference

Nyman], Sp. Pl. 1753.

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Citation

World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (2010), copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Tradescantia Ruppius ex L.. Accessed through: Euro+Med PlantBase at http://ww2.bgbm.org/euroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?UUID=7ACEB544-C75C-4913-9996-4746A5D62C1A

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Occurrence

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2010-07-08 by World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (2010), copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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