CHR 610457 – Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 610457
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
13 July 2010
Database record updated:
07 April 2015
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell. aff.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Commelinales
Family:
Commelinaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Banks Peninsula, Charteris Bay, Orton Bradley Park
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.6593 172.703
Verbatim locality:
Banks Peninsula, Charteris Bay, Orton Bradley Estate
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 102/08
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
15 Nov 2008
Start date:
2008-11-15
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Rhododendron garden, shade beneath shrubs. Semi-spontaneous.
Notes:
Sprawling herb with decumbent to suberect stems, purple and shining, glabrous. Leaves to 5-(7)-2-(4) cm, ovate, acute to short acuminate, shining to nearly dull green above, ± shining beneath and green and often purplish-tinged; basal petiolar sheath purplish & ciliate. Flowers white, in small clusters. Sepals 4-5 mm long, green, equal or nearly so, ovate or narrow-ovate. Pedicels to 1.8 cm long, shining purple, glabrate or ± glandular-pilose distally, ± curving downwards when young. Petals 6-8-4-5 mm, broad ovate, obtuse. Stamens 4-5 mm long; filaments white; anthers yellow. Filament basal hair tuft nearly = filament; hairs septate. A small patch.
Duplicates
AK:
Direction:
Sent
DAO:
Direction:
Sent
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