CHR 513426 – Tradescantia L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 513426
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
11 September 1997
Database record updated:
07 April 2015
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Tradescantia pallida (Rose) Hunt `Purple Heart'
Determiner:
Sykes WR
Identification date:
1997-04-30 (Verbatim: 30-APR-1997)
Preferred name:
Tradescantia L.
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Commelinales
Family:
Commelinaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Christchurch Botanic Gardens
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.530379 172.620934
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, Botanic Gardens
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 170/97
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
30-APR-1997
Start date:
1997-04-30
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
In glasshouse
Notes:
Semi-succulent herb, the whole plant apart from the corolla ± purple. Leaves concave above, tending horizontal, bright purple beneath, sometimes dark greenish-purple above. Bracts leaf-like. Corolla pink inside, paler outside; petals c.1.8 x 1.2cm, broadly ovate-elliptic.
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