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Tradescantia zebrina Bosse
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United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Zebrina pendula Schnizlein
Herbs perennial. Stems prostrate or decumbent, often forming dense mats or colonies, branched, rooting at nodes, glabrous or pilose. Leaves alternate, sessile; leaf sheath 8--12 × 5--8 mm, thin, membranous, long-ciliate at mouth, otherwise glabrous or sparsely villous; leaf blade with 2 longitudinal, silver stripes adaxially, purple abaxially, ovate, 3--10 × 1.5--3.2 cm, somewhat fleshy, glabrous or sparsely pilose on both surfaces, base rounded, apex acute or acuminate. Flowers in clusters subtended by 2 large, leaflike, narrow, ciliate bracts. Sepals lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, ca. 5 × 1.5 mm. Petals rose pink, ovate, ca. 6 mm, apex obtuse. Seeds rugulose.
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Distribution: A native of C. and S. America, widely cultivated as an ornamental.
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Herbs, decumbent. Leaves 2-ranked; blade variegated, abaxially reddish purple, adaxially striped green and white, lanceolate-elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 3--9 ´ 1.5--3 cm (distal leaf blades wider or narrower than sheaths when sheaths opened, flattened), base oblique, cuneate, apex acute to acuminate. Inflorescences terminal, consisting of pairs of sessile cymes enclosed in sheaths of spathaceous bracts, pedunculate; spathaceous bracts foliaceous, reduced. Flowers subsessile; sepals basally connate, 4--5 mm; petals pink, clawed, claws basally connate forming tube; stamens epipetalous; filaments bearded. Capsules 3-locular; locules 2-seeded.
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Chile Central
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Zebrina pendula Schnizlein.
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Prostrate herb. Leaves narrowly ovate, elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-7 cm long, 2-4 cm broad, sheathing at base, greenish with variegated, 2-4 stripes above, reddish-purple beneath. Inflorescence a stalked head of 2-3, terminal flowers subtended by 2, unequal, folded, leafy bracts. Flowers pinkish; corolla lobes ovate, obtuse, c. 1 cm long, joined below into a conspicuous, pale or whitish tube, longer than the lobes. Ovary glabrous with filiform style.
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Zebrina pendula Schnizlein
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Fl.Per.: Almost round the year.
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