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The genus Tradescantia is in the family Commelinaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Tradescantia

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Tradescantia ambigua Mart. ex Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia anagallidea Seub.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia × andersoniana W.Ludw. & Rohweder	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia andrieuxii C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia boliviana (Hassk.) J.R.Grant	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia brachyphylla Greenm.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia bracteata Small ex Britton	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia brevifolia (Torr.) Rose	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia buckleyi (I.M.Johnst.) D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia burchii D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia cerinthoides Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia cirrifera Mart.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia commelinoides Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia crassifolia Cav.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia crassula Link & Otto	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia cymbispatha C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia deficiens Brandegee	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia edwardsiana Tharp	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia ernestiana E.S.Anderson & Woodson	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia exaltata D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia fluminensis Vell.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia gentryi D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia gigantea Rose	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia gracillima Standl.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia grantii Faden	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia guatemalensis C.B.Clarke ex J.D.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia guiengolensis Matuda	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia gypsophila B.L.Turner	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia hirsuticaulis Small	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia hirsutiflora Bush	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia hirta D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia huehueteca (Standl. & Steyerm.) D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia humilis Rose	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia leiandra Torr.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia llamasii Matuda	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia longipes E.S.Anderson & Woodson	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia masonii Matuda	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia maysillesii Matuda	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia mcvaughii D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia mirandae Matuda	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia monosperma Brandegee	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia nuevoleonensis Matuda	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia occidentalis (Britton) Smyth	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia ohiensis Raf.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia orchidophylla Rose & Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia ozarkana E.S.Anderson & Woodson	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia pallida (Rose) D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia pedicellata Celarier	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia peninsularis Brandegee	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia petiolaris M.E.Jones	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia petricola J.R.Grant	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia pinetorum Greene	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia plusiantha Standl.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia poelliae D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia pygmaea D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia reverchonii Bush	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia roseolens Small	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia rozynskii Matuda	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia schippii D.R.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia sillamontana Matuda	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia soconuscana Matuda	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia spathacea Sw.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia standleyi Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia stenophylla Brandegee	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia subacaulis Bush	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia subaspera Ker Gawl.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia tepoxtlana Matuda	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia tharpii E.S.Anderson & Woodson	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia umbraculifera Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia valida G.Brückn.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia velutina Kunth & C.D.Bouché	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia virginiana L.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia wrightii Rose & Bush	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia zanonia (L.) Sw.	Accepted		WCSP
Tradescantia zebrina Bosse	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 327 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Tradescantia. Of these 75 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 76 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Tradescantia. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 327 species names for the genus Tradescantia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	75	22.9%
◕	Synonym	242	74.0%
◕	Unplaced	8	2.4%
◕	Unassessed	2	0.6%

All names

The status of the 403 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Tradescantia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	83	20.6%
◕	Synonym	310	76.9%
◕	Unplaced	8	2.0%
◕	Unassessed	2	0.5%

Of these names,

• 6 are recorded as invalid
• 19 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 327 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Tradescantia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	75	237	0	0	312	95.4%
	Medium confidence	0	5	0	0	5	1.5%
	Low confidence	0	0	8	2	10	3.1%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Tradescantia, are as follows: