Vellozo, J.M. de C. (1829), Florae Fluminensis: 140 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not cited).

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

Tovey, J.R. & Morris, P.F. (1923), Contributions from the National Herbarium of Victoria, No. 3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 35(2): 195 [secondary reference]

Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 281 [secondary reference]

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

misapplied to: Tradescantia albiflora Kunth legitimate by Willis, J.H. (1970), A Handbook to Plants in Victoria Edn. 2, 1: 281

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

taxonomic synonym: Tradescantia albiflora Kunth legitimate

Jessup, L.W. (2005), Flora of South-eastern Queensland Volume 3 Changes to names or status of taxa: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Tradescantia albiflora Kunth legitimate

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

misapplication: Tradescantia albiflora Kunth legitimate by Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta). Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: 176, 36a-b

• APC Comment: The circumscription of Tradescantia fluminensis on LHI (P.S.Green in A.J.G.Wilson (ed.), Fl. Australia 49: 420 (1994)) and Tas includes T. albiflora Kunth.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Pellegrini, M.O.O., Forzza, R.C. & Sakuragui, C.M. (2015), A nomenclatural and taxonomic review of Tradescantia (Commelinaceae) species described in Vellozo’s Flora fluminensis with notes on Brazilian Tradescantia. Taxon 64(1): 152 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(designated here): [illustration] Original parchment plate of Flora fluminensis in the Manuscript Section of the Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro [cat. no.: mss1198652_156] and later published in Vellozo, Fl. Flumin. Icones 3: t. 152. 1831."

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 83 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Tradescantia albiflora Kunth legitimate

Pellegrini, M.O.O. (2018), Wandering throughout South America: Taxonomic revision of Tradescantia subg. Austrotradescantia (D.R.Hunt) M.Pell. (Commelinaceae). Phytokeys 101: 52-60, Figs. 20, 21 (map) APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Tradescantia albiflora Kunth legitimate

• APC Comment: The circumscription of Tradescantia fluminensis on LHI (P.S.Green in A.J.G.Wilson (ed.), Fl. Australia 49: 420 (1994)) and Tas includes T. albiflora Kunth.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

• Etymology: "The epithet “fluminensis” makes reference to the region the species was originally described, the state of Rio de Janeiro."

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