Commelinales & Zingiberales Week: Commelinales, Tradescantia spathacea from Delhi

[Gurcharan Singh]

Commelinales & Zingiberales Week: Commelinales, Tradescantia spathacea Sw,,  Prodr. 57. 1788

Syn: Rhoeo discolor (L'Hér.) Hance

       Rhoeo spathacea (Sw.) Stearn

     Tradescantia discolor L'Hér.

Another common garden ornamental grown in pots and baskets in Delhi, with long red leaves and white flowers enclosed in large spathaceous bracts  in the axils of leaves. Formerly known as Rhoeo discolor.

Common Names: boat-lily, moses-in-the-cradle, oysterplant 

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/

[Mayur Nandikar]

Tradescantia spathacea Swartz, Prodr. 57. 1788; Rhoeo discolor (L’Héritier) Hance; R. spathacea (Swartz) Stearn; Tradescantia discolor L’Héritier. ‘Boat lily, Moses-in-a-boat, Oyster lily’.

            Herbs perennial. Stems erect, often forming colonies, simple, glabrous. Leaves alternate, sometimes seemingly spirally arranged, sessile; leaf sheath sometimes pilose at mouth; leaf blade dark green adaxially, purple abaxially, oblong-lanceolate, 20-40 × 3--6 cm, glabrous, somewhat fleshy, base narrowed and semiclasping, apex acuminate. Flowers in axillary, pedunculate, simple or forked, many-flowered umbels subtended by 2 large, conduplicate, ovate bracts to 3 cm. Petals white, ovate, 5--8 mm, apex abruptly acute. Seeds rugose.

Flowering: Always

Distribution: Naturalized all over world. Native to Caribbean region and Central America. Widely cultivated as an ornamental in India.

Note: The flower and leaf is used as folk medicine. This plant is also known as Rhoeo discolor and more frequently in the horticulture trade as Rhoeo spathacea. 

--
Mr. Mayur D. Nandikar,
Research Student,
Department of Botany,
Shivaji University,
Kolhapur.

[tanay bose]

Ring chromosome in this plant plant makes it quite unique to the scientific world

tanay

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[Gurcharan Singh]

Thanks Mayur ji for detailed information

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[Mahadeswara]

Very common border plant in Chennai Gardens.

On Feb 7, 9:04 am, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Commelinales & Zingiberales Week: Commelinales, Tradescantia spathacea
> Sw,,  Prodr.
> 57. 1788

> Syn: *Rhoeo discolor* (L'Hér.) Hance
> *       Rhoeo spathacea* (Sw.) Stearn
> *     Tradescantia discolor* L'Hér.

>
> Another common garden ornamental grown in pots and baskets in Delhi, with
> long red leaves and white flowers enclosed in large spathaceous bracts  in
> the axils of leaves. Formerly known as Rhoeo discolor.
>
> Common Names: boat-lily, moses-in-the-cradle, oysterplant
>
> --
> Dr. Gurcharan Singh
> Retired  Associate Professor
> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
> Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
>

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[Balkar Arya]

Mines from Arya PG College Campus Shot Today

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