Details
| Full name | Tradescantia fluminensis ‘Rosea’. |
| Name status | Not established, an invalidly published name which may be a unique cultivar or may refer to ‘Lavender’. Listed for sale with no description by Royal Horticultural Society (1999, p. 719). No description has been found, so the name cannot be established (Brickell et al., 2016, Art. 27.1). The name may refer to Tradescantia fluminensis ‘Lavender’, but there is not enough information to link it to any plant known today. |
| Origins | Unknown. |
| Classification | The species Tradescantia fluminensis has sometimes been labelled with its botanical synonym Tradescantia albiflora, and with the invalid horticultural names Tradescantia viridis, Tradescantia repens, and Tradescantia reptans. |
| Legal protection | None. |
| Availability | May be a trade name for ‘Lavender’, still in cultivation. But this is not certain, so the plant is assumed to be lost. It has not been documented since its first publication (Royal Horticultural Society, 1999, p. 719). |
Description
Never described.
| Species | Tradescantia fluminensis. |
References
Royal Horticultural Society. (1999). RHS Plant Finder 1999.
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.