Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 288 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Tradescantia virginiana L.

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 139 [secondary reference]

• Type: Tradescantia virginiana L.

Bailey, F.M. (1905), Contributions to the Flora of Queensland. Queensland Agricultural Journal 15(6): 782 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 565 [secondary reference]

common name: Spiderworts [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 429 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1113, 1115 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 9 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Commelinaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 76 [secondary reference]

Brummitt, R.K. (1992), Vascular Plant Families and Genera: 458 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Zebrina Schnizl. legitimate

Wilson, Peter G. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Commelinaceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 257 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta). Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 176 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 419-420 [secondary reference]

Morris, D.I. in Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1994), Commelinaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 4B: 36 [secondary reference]

Faden, R.B. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Commelinaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 123 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Rhoeo Hance ex Walp. legitimate

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 865-866 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Rhoeo Hance ex Walp. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Zebrina Schnizl. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Rhoeo Hance ex Walp. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), SA (native and naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Soltis, D.E., Smith, S.A., Cellinese, N., Wurdack, K.J., Tank, D.C., Brockington, S.F., Refulio-Rodriguez, N.F., Walker, J.B., Moore, M.J., Carlswars, B.S., Bell, C.D., Latvis, M., Crawley, S., Black, C., Diouf, D., Xi, Z., Rushworth, C.A., Gitzendanner, M.A., Sytsma, K.J., Qui, Y., Hilu, K.W., Davis, C.C., Sanderson, M.J., Beaman, R.S., Olmstead, R.G., Judd, W.S., Donoghue, M.J. & Soltis, P.S. (1 April 2011), Angiosperm Phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa. American Journal of Botany 98(4): Fig. 2B [secondary reference]

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