Tradescantia spathacea Sw.

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TRUMAN G. YUNCKER HERBARIUM
OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY (DPU)
PURCHASED BY NY IN 1987
BOTANIC
The New York Botanical Garden
Tradescantia spathacea Sw.
det. M. Nee, 2012
Rhoeo discolor (L’Héritier) Hance, in Walpers Ann. Bot. syst. 3: 660,1852.
Low herb with short, thick, creeping, fleshy stems. Leaves numerous, narrowly lance-
olate, entire, up to 30 or more cm. long, purplish green or reddish beneath, green above.
Flowers small, white, axillary, surrounded by a boat-shaped involucral bract.
Introduced ornamental which has become naturalized. It is common in
waste areas and especially on rocks near the sea where it occasionally forms
large patches (9593).
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DEPAUW UNIV*
HERBARIUM,
herbarium
t. G. YUNCKER
Presented to DPI’ Herbarium
by T. G. Yuncker
Flora of Niue Island
Herbarium of Bernice P. Bishop Museum
Rhoeo discolor Hance
tie white; lvs. purole beneath. Cul-
tivated ornamental. Also abundant as
an escape on rocky cliffs, etc.,
Alofl. 10 m. alt. Jan. 12, 1940.
Coll. T. G. Yunckes
det. Marie Neal
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