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Classification
Class
Family
Genus
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell., Fl. Flumin. 140, t. 152 (1829)
Synonymy:
Lectotype (designated by Pellegrini et al. 2015). [illustration] Original parchment plate of “Flora fluminensis” in the Manuscript Section of the Biblioteca Nacional of Rio de Janeiro [cat. no.: mss1198652_156] and later published in Vellozo, Fl. Flumin. Icones 3: t. 152. 1831.
- = Tradescantia albiflora Kunth, Enum. Pl. 4, 84 (1843)
Lectotype (designated by Pellegrini 2018): s.loc., cultivated in Germany, Horto Berolinense, fl., s.dat., C.S. Kunth 165 (B barcode B100264915!; isolectotype: B barcode B100264916!)
Vernacular Name(s):
Wandering Jew; Wandering Willie
Description
Trailing perennial with succulent stems, rooting readily at nodes, ascending above. Leaves 3–6 cm long, ovate-elliptic, acute, shining, very shortly petioled, leaf- and petiole-margins ciliate; sheaths 5–10 mm long, loosely clasping, hyaline, obviously ciliate. Flowers several in umbels with 2 unequal leaf-like bracts; pedicels slender, to 1.5 cm long; sepals green, c.7 mm long, ovate, hairy on keel; petals white delicate, c. 10 mm long, ovate to elliptic. Capsule not seen.
[From: Healy and Edgar (1980) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 3.]
Biostatus
Exotic
Phenology
Flowering: Dec.–Jan.
Bibliography
Biosecurity New Zealand 2012: Regional Pest Management Strategies Database. http://www.biosecurityperformance.maf.govt.nz/
Biosecurity New Zealand 4 Aug 2011: Unwanted Organisms Register. http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/pests/registers/uor
Biosecurity New Zealand 2008: National Plant Pest Accord. MAF Biosecurity New Zealand, Wellington.
Heenan, P.B.; Cheeseman, D.F.; Mitchell, C.M.; Dawson, M.I.; Smith, l.A.; Houliston, G.J. 2023: Genetic diversity of Tradescantia fluminensis complex (Commelinaceae) naturalised in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. New Zealand Journal of Botany 61(1): 23–37. (Published online: 2022)
Howell, C. 2008: Consolidated list of environmental weeds in New Zealand. DOC Research & Development Series 292: 42.
Kunth, K.S. 1843: Enumeratio Plantarum Omnium Hucusque Cognitarum, Secundum Familias Naturales Disposita, Adjectis Characteribus, Differntiis et Synonymis. Vol. 4. Stutgardiae et Tubingae [Stuttgart and Tübingen]
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Ministry for Primary Industries 23 Feb 2017: Unwanted Organisms Register. Version 02.01.02. https://www1.maf.govt.nz/uor
Pellegrini, M.O.O. 2018: Wandering throughout South America: Taxonomic revision of Tradescantia subg. Austrotradescantia (D.R.Hunt) M.Pell. (Commelinaceae). PhytoKeys 104: 1–97.
Pellegrini, M.O.O.; Forzza, R.C.; Sakuragui, C.M. 2015: A nomenclatural and taxonomic review of Tradescantia (Commelinaceae) species described in Vellozo’s Flora fluminensis with notes on Brazilian Tradescantia. Taxon 64(1): 151–155.
Vellozo, J.M. da C. 1829: Florae Fluminensis, seu descriptionum plantarum praefectura flumiensi sponte nascentium liber primus ad systema sexuale concinnatus augustissimae dominae nostrae per manus. Typographia Nationali, Rio de Janeiro.
