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This species is accepted, and its native range is SE. & S. Brazil to NE. Argentina.
Tradescantia geniculata

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Paraguay, Uruguay

Tradescantia cymbispatha C.B.Clarke appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Woods [3350] 61218.000

First published in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 3: 296 (1881)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Pellegrini, M.O.O. (2018). Wandering throughout South America: Taxonomic revision of Tradescantia subg. Austradescantia (D.R.Hunt) M.Pell. (Commelinaceae) PhytoKeys 104: 1-97.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Pellegrini, M.O.O. (2018). Wandering throughout South America: Taxonomic revision of Tradescantia subg. Austradescantia (D.R.Hunt) M.Pell. (Commelinaceae) PhytoKeys 104: 1-97.

Art and Illustrations in Digifolia
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0