Details
| Full name | Tradescantia (Andersoniana Group) ‘Ramosa’. |
| Name status | Accepted, the valid name for a unique cultivar. Established with a description by Rafinesque (1837, p. 85). |
| Origins | From a garden (Rafinesque, 1837, p. 85). |
| Classification | Originally published as Tradescantia virginiana var. ramosa. This is not an accepted botanical variety (POWO, 2022), so the plant is treated as a cultivar with the same name (Brickell et al., 2016, Art. 21.6). Like other hardy garden hybrids, it is now placed in the Andersoniana Group. These hybrids are sometimes mislabelled as Tradescantia virginiana or the invalid botanical hybrid Tradescantia × andersoniana. |
| Legal protection | None. |
| Availability | Probably lost, it has not been documented since its first publication (Rafinesque, 1837, p. 85). |
Description
Described by Rafinesque (1837, p. 85).
| Cultivar group | Tradescantia Andersoniana Group. |
| Growth habit | 90-120cm high. |
| Foliage | Highly branched, with large leaves. |
| Flowers | Large. |
References
Rafinesque, C. S. (1837). New Flora and Botany of North America: Second Part. Biodiversity Heritage Library 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.
POWO. (2022). Tradescantia virginiana. Plants of the World Online. Link.