New York Metropolitan Flora

Genus: Tradescantia

By Science Staff

Not peer reviewed

Last Modified 02/23/2012

Back to Commelinaceae

Nomenclature

Tradescantia Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 288. 1753.

List of Tradescantia Species

Tradescantia ohiensis Tradescantia virginiana

References to Tradescantia

  • Anderson, E. 1936. Hybridization in American tradescantias. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 23: 511-525.
  • Anderson, E. 1938. Hybridization in Tradescantia. Amer. J. Bot. 25: 396-402.
  • Anderson, E. 1934. A cytological analysis of self-sterility in Tradescantia. Bot. Gaz. 95: 609-621.
  • Anderson, E.; Diehl, D. G. 1932. Contributions to the Tradescantia problem. J. Arnold Arbor. 13: 213-231.
  • Anderson, E.; Sax, K. 1936. A cytological monograph of the American species of Tradescantia. Bot. Gaz. 97: 433-476.
  • Anderson, E.; Woodson, R. E. 1935. The species of Tradescantia indigenous to the United States. Contr. Arnold Arbor. 9: 1-132.
  • Darlington, C. D. 1929. Chromosome behavior and structural hybridity in the Tradescantiae I. J. Genet. 21: 207-286.
  • Hubricht, L. 1941. Vicinism in Tradescantia. Amer. J. Bot. 28: 957.
  • Hunt, D. R. 1980. Sections and series in Tradescantia. American Commelinaceae: IX. Kew Bull. 35: 437-442.
  • Owens, S. J.; Kimmins, F. M. 1981. Stigma morphology in Commelinaceae. Ann. Bot. (London) 47: 771-784.
  • Robertson, C. 1892. Flowers and insects. VII. Bot. Gaz. 17: 65-71.
  • Sinclair, C. B. 1968. Pollination, hybridization, and isolation factors in the erect tradescantias. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 95: 232-240.
  • Sinclair, C. B. 1967. Studies on the erect tradescantias. Ph.D. Thesis Missouri Univ., Columbia,