Tradescantia spathacea Hansoti
Authors/Creators
- 1. 1 University of the Witwatersrand, School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, C. E. Moss Herbarium, Johannesburg, South Africa & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
- 2. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
- 3. Université de Neuchâtel, Institut de Biologie, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- 4. Independent Scholar, Machynlleth, UK
- 5. 1 University of the Witwatersrand, School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, C. E. Moss Herbarium, Johannesburg, South Africa & Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK & Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais, Palino-IPA, São Paulo, Brazil
- 6. 1 University of the Witwatersrand, School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, C. E. Moss Herbarium, Johannesburg, South Africa
Description
2. b. iii.
Tradescantia spathacea(Bantam Group) ‘HANSOTI 02’ Hansoti (Hansoti 2007: 1)Fig. 6 F
Tradescantia spathacea ‘SITARA GOLD’ Hansoti (Hansoti 2010: 1)
Tradescantia spathacea ‘ HANSOTI 02’ Hansoti (Hansoti 2011: 1)
Tradescantia spathacea ‘Golden Oyster’ L. C. Hatch (Hatch 2022: 10)
Recognition
Leaves adaxially dark green, longitudinally striped yellow to lime-green, sometimes so densely striped the leaves look greenish-grey, abaxially pale lavender to pink, margins golden; flowers rare.
Origin
Sport mutation discovered by Ashish Hansoti in Mumbai, India, in 2005.
Notes
The variegation pattern in the leaves is generally stable but occasionally makes solid-gold sports (i. e. T. spathacea ‘Lemon Sunset’). The colouration of the leaves can become more or less bold depending on lighting conditions. Unpublished trade names include ‘ Sitake’s Gold’ (an orth. var. of ‘ SITARA GOLD’), ‘Sunny Star’, and ‘Amber Waves’.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Hansoti
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Order
- Commelinales
- Family
- Commelinaceae
- Genus
- Tradescantia
- Taxon rank
- cultivar
References
- Hansoti AA (2010) Tradescantia plant named ' SITARA GOLD' [US Plant Patent PP 20,917 P 2]. United States Patent and Trademark Office. https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/PP20917 [accessed 05. 08. 2025]
- Hansoti AA (2011) Tradescantia spathacea ' HANSOTI 02 ' [Japanese Plant Breeder's Rights registration 20863]. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. https://vf.plantvarieties.eu/varieties/JP-0-PBR-811440 [accessed 05. 08. 2025]
- Hatch LC (2022) Commelinaceae: a Guide to Modern and Historic Cultivars. Cultivar. org Publications, Cary, 1–60.