Details
| Full name | Tradescantia (Continental Group) ‘Pink Lilac’. |
| Name status | Not established, an invalid unpublished name for an undescribed cultivar. Listed online with photos by Korbas (2021). No hardcopy publication has been found, so the name is not established (Brickell et al., 2016, Art. 27.1). |
| Origins | Unknown. |
| Classification | Often labelled as Tradescantia albiflora, which is now considered a botanical synonym for Tradescantia fluminensis (POWO, 2022). It does not fully match that species, but appears to be an unknown hybrid from the subgenus Austrotradescantia. Like other variegated Austrotradescantia cultivars, it is now placed in the Continental Group. |
| Legal protection | None. |
| Availability | Available from a small number of collectors and specialists. |
Description
Never described.
| Cultivar group | Tradescantia Continental Group. |
References
Brickell, C. D., Alexander, C., Cubey, J. J., David, J. C., Hoffman, M. H. A., Leslie, A. C., Malécot, V., Jin, X. (2016). International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants. PDF link.
Korbas, D. (2021). Tradescantia albiflora variegata ‘Pink Lilac’ (smooth form). Tradescantia Plant. Internet Archive link.
POWO. (2022). Tradescantia albiflora. Plants of the World Online. Link.