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Published April 16, 2026 | Version v1
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Tradescantia spathacea A. Rowe

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. iv.

Tradescantia spathacea(Bantam Group) ‘Lemon Sunset’ A. Rowe, cv. nov.

Fig. 6 G

Recognition

Leaves adaxially solid lime-green to golden-yellow, lacking stripes, abaxially pink to light pinkish-purple; flowers rare.

Origin

Sport mutation which has arisen independently from T. spathacea ‘ HANSOTI 02’ on multiple occasions.

Notes

Named by Tyleen Mansker after a community vote. In T. spathacea ‘Lemon Sunset’, the variegation characteristic of T. spathacea ‘ HANSOTI 02’ is lost, giving rise to this cultivar’s evenly coloured leaves.

Notes

Published as part of Pellegrini, Marco O. O., Hunt, David R., Grant, Jason R., Rowe, Avery, Antonio-Domingues, Higor & de Almeida, Rafael F., 2026, Towards a taxonomic revision of Tradescantia subg. Campelia (Commelinaceae) I: sectional arrangement and revision of T. sect. Rhoeo, pp. 208-227 in Plant Ecology and Evolution 159 (2) on pages 208-227, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.138752

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/88EE83C2D6DF5BBF810A7772525C2952

Cites
Figure: 10.5091/plecevo.138752.figure6 (DOI)
Figure: https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1588452 (URL)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.5091/plecevo.138752 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/DF0A5FC807E75577B7A9E95278D3DF8F (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/88EE83C2D6DF5BBF810A7772525C2952 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/319727237 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314944/taxon/88EE83C2D6DF5BBF810A7772525C2952.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
A. Rowe
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Commelinales
Family
Commelinaceae
Genus
Tradescantia
Taxon rank
cultivar