Tradescantia spathacea: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Latin names; Binomial nomenclature)Tradescantia spathacea Swartz is the name of a plant defined in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in modern medicine, Ayurveda, and other local traditions or folk medicine. It has the following synonyms: Ephemerum bicolor Moench, Ephemerum discolor Moench, Rhoeo discolor (L’Hér.) Hance ex Walp., Rhoeo discolor (L’Héritier) Hance, Rhoeo spathacea (Swartz) Stearn, Rhoeo spathacea f. concolor (Baker) Stehlé, Rhoeo spathacea f. variegata (Hook.) Stehlé, Tradescantia discolor L’Héritier, Tradescantia discolor var. concolor Baker, Tradescantia discolor var. variegata Hook., Tradescantia versicolor Salisb.) (Rhoeo Hance, derivation of the name unknown, perhaps from the Latin rhoeas, adis or rhoea, ae used by Plinius for the wild-poppy, Greek rhoias applied by Theophrastus (HP. 9.12.4) and Dioscorides to the corn poppy, a species of Papaver, or from Greek rhoe, rhoa ‘river, stream, flowing of sap’..
References regarding Tradescantia spathacea Swartz for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:
· Prodr. descriptionum Vegetabilium … Ind. Occ. (1788)
· Sertum Anglicum (1788)
· Prodromus Stirpium in Horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium (1796)
· Suppl. Meth. (1802)
· Annales Botanices Systematicae (1852)
· Botanical Magazine, or ‘Flower-Garden Displayed’ (5079)
· Fieldiana, Botany (1952)
· Baileya (1957)
· Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (1970)
· Chromosoma (1979)
· Fl. Mesoamer. (1994)
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See also (Relevant definitions)
Full-text: Boat lily, Bangka-bangkaan, Moses in the bulrushes, Purple leaved spiderwort, Bang lan ye, Moses in his cradle, Cradle lily, Fuiri-murasaki-omoto, Man in a boat, Men in a boat, Moses on a raft, Zi bei wan nian qing, Three men in a boat, Oyster plant, Rhoeo spathacea.
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