CHR 516563 – Tradescantia spathacea Sw.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 516563
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
26 June 1998
Database record updated:
22 January 2016
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Tradescantia spathacea Sw.
Determiner:
I Schönberger
Identification date:
2016-01-22 (Verbatim: 22 Jan 2016)
Preferred name:
Tradescantia spathacea Sw.
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Commelinales
Family:
Commelinaceae
Identification type:
Nomenclatural curation
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Aitutaki, Reureu
Verbatim locality:
Aitutaki, Reureu
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4816/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
4 May 1995
Start date:
1995-05-04
Country:
Cook Islands
Habitat:
Roadside bank, amongst rank herbs.
Notes:
Succulent plant with thick rhizome from which a terminal cluster of erect or suberect leaves arise. Leaves to c. 40 x 6 cm, sword-like, glossy purple beneath, glossy dark green above. Inflorescences congested and enclosed by large boat-shaped spathes, on peduncles to 4 cm. Bracts glossy deep purple, usually c. 2.5 cm deep and 6 to 7.5 cm wide, each end being attenuated. Perianth white, open in mornings. Corolla white; tube slender, 15-17 mm long; lobes equal or nearly so, 7-8 x 6-7 mm, broad ovate with obtuse apex. Filaments and beard white. Flowers ephemeral, shrivelling by middle of day. Several metres along bank with numbers of plants altogether.
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