Commelinales and Zingiberales Week: Commelinaceae, Tradescantia pallida from Delhi

[Gurcharan Singh]

Commelinales and Zingiberales Week: Commelinaceae, Tradescantia pallida (Rose) D. R. Hunt,  Kew Bull. 30:452. 1975

syn:  Setcreasea pallida Rose, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 13:294. 1911

      Setcreasea purpurea Boom

       Tradescantia purpurea Boom

Commonly grown ornamental in Delhi, used as ground cover, with reddish leaves and short decumbent branches.

Common name: Purple heart, purple queen

 

--
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 pallida (Rose) D. R. Hunt, Kew. Bull. 30: 452. 1975.Setcreasea pallida Rose, Contr. U. S. Natl. Heb. 13: 294. 1911; S. purpurea Boom. 

            Herbs, perennial, succulent. Stems suffused with purpulish violet. Leaves spirally arranged; blade not variegated, suffused with purplish violet, lanceolate-oblong to oblong-elliptic, (4-)7- 15 x 1.5- 3cm, base symmetric, rounded to broadly cuneate, margins ciliate or ciliolate, apex acute, glabrous or glabrescent. Inflorescence terminal, often becoming leaf-opposed, pedunculate; peduncles (3.5-) 4- 13 cm; bracts similar to leaves but usually greatly reduced. Flowers subsessile; pedicels densely white –pillose at summit; sepals distinct, 7-10 mm, pilose basally; petals slightly connate at base, pink clawed, 1.5-2 cm; stamens epipetalous; filaments very sparsely bearded. Capsules 3.5 mm, glbrous. Seeds 2.5-3 mm.

Flowering: Always.

Distribution: Native to Mexico; introduced as garden ornamental.

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

[tanay bose]

Thanks for posting sir the photo of the flower is really awesome

Tanay

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[Gurcharan Singh]

That is great Mayur ji

-- 
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/ 

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