Gibasis pellucida(M.Martens & Galeotti) D.R.Hunt

Tahitian bridal veildotted bridalveil

WFO wfo-0000429848 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Gibasis pellucida, photographed by Alexis López Hernández
fig. a Alexis López Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-14 / obs. 144172590
Gibasis pellucida, photographed by Jake Rehage
fig. b Jake Rehage, CC0 1.0 / obs. 140245161
Gibasis pellucida, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. c Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112598510
Gibasis pellucida, photographed by Philip Vanbergen
fig. d Philip Vanbergen, CC0 1.0 / obs. 74910291
Gibasis pellucida, photographed by Cody Stricker
fig. e Cody Stricker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61626169
Gibasis pellucida, photographed by Brian Finzel
fig. f Brian Finzel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 342819140
Gibasis pellucida, photographed by Laura Clark
fig. g Laura Clark, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 20618795
Gibasis pellucida, photographed by Juan Cruzado Cortés
fig. h Juan Cruzado Cortés, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 2761745

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Flowering 100 in flower of 102 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Gibasis pellucida observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 100 of 102 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Gibasis schiedeana (Kunth) D.R.Hunt
  • Tradescantia geniculata var. botterii C.B.Clarke
  • Tradescantia geniculata var. schiedeana (Kunth) C.B.Clarke
  • Tradescantia lundellii Standl.
  • Tradescantia pellucida M.Martens & Galeotti
  • Tradescantia schiedeana Kunth
  • Tripogandra lundellii (Standl.) Woodson

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.