Plant Details

No trade or plant part information for this plant in the MPNS resource.

Kew's taxonomic resources include 6 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

• Tradescantia acaulis M.Martens & Galeotti Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Bruxelles 9(2): 375 (1842).
• Tradescantia crassifolia subsp. acaulis (M.Martens & Galeotti) López-Ferr., Espejo & Ceja Fl. Veracruz 161: 84 (2014).
• Tradescantia decipiens Van Houtte Hort. Belge 5: 162 (1838).
• Tradescantia iridescens Lindl. Edwards's Bot. Reg. 24(Misc.): 86 (1838).
• Tradescantia iridescens var. glabrescens Regel Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1857: 26 (1858).
• Tradescantia mexicomontana Matuda Bol. Soc. Bot. México 17: 1 (1954).

This plant has not been found explicitly cited in the medicinal literature. MPNS has included this plant because its parent species (or an infraspecies belonging to it) is recorded as medicinal.

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