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Genus: Tradescantia
Life
> eukaryotes >
Archaeoplastida >
Chloroplastida
>
Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants)
> Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants)
> Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering
plants) > Monocotyledons > Commelinales
> Family: Commelinaceae
About 60 species, native to North and South America. At
least 11 species have been cultivated in southern African gardens of which one, Tradescantia
flumensis, has become naturalised in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal.
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