‘Mme Lequesne’

Details

(Understanding this section)

Correct name

Tradescantia zebrina ‘Quadricolor’.

Name status

Established synonym, another published name for the cultivar Tradescantia zebrina ‘Quadricolor’. Established with a description by James Veitch & Sons (1882, p. 45). Because it was published before 1959, the name can be established with no description (Brickell et al., 2016, Art. 27.1). It was originally misspelled ‘Madame Leguense’, but this is corrected to match the earlier name it is derived from, ‘Multicolor Mme Lequesne’ (Brickell et al., 2016, Art. 35.2). The more widely-used name ‘Quadricolor’ is now accepted for this cultivar. Not to be confused with: Tradescantia zebrina ‘Mme Lequesne’ [2019], the name was invalidly reused to refer to a different cultivar.

References

James Veitch & Sons. (1882). Catalogue of Plants. Internet Archive link.

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.