Tripogandra diuretica(Mart.) Handlos

WFO wfo-0000593628 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tripogandra diuretica, photographed by Matias Cabezas
fig. a Matias Cabezas, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-22 / obs. 200548557
Tripogandra diuretica, photographed by Bahiano Ayala
fig. b Bahiano Ayala, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196172344
Tripogandra diuretica, photographed by Matias Cabezas
fig. c Matias Cabezas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192586741
Tripogandra diuretica, photographed by Andrea Gantzer
fig. d Andrea Gantzer, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197118698
Tripogandra diuretica, photographed by Cecilia C. Morgan
fig. e Cecilia C. Morgan, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195196676
Tripogandra diuretica, photographed by Matias Cabezas
fig. f Matias Cabezas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184751876
Tripogandra diuretica, photographed by Fernando Sessegolo
fig. g Fernando Sessegolo, CC0 1.0 / obs. 179065151
Tripogandra diuretica, photographed by Candela Castro
fig. h Candela Castro, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162663876

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Tripogandra diuretica is native: Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Paraguay, Uruguay Argentina NortheastBoliviaBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralParaguayUruguay
Native distribution of Tripogandra diuretica, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Paraguay PAR
Uruguay URU

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 108 in flower of 111 examined

Peak flowering in Mar. Each bar is the share of Tripogandra diuretica 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. 108 of 111 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 11 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.

  • Callisia diuretica (Mart.) Christenh. & Byng
  • Descantaria diuretica Hassk. ex C.B.Clarke
  • Tradescantia commelina Vell.
  • Tradescantia diuretica Mart.
  • Tradescantia diuretica var. mollis (Kunth) Seub.
  • Tradescantia elongata f. diuretica (Mart.) Standl. & Steyerm.
  • Tradescantia elongata var. diuretica (Mart.) C.B.Clarke
  • Tradescantia gaudichaudiana Kunth
  • Tradescantia mollis Kunth
  • Tradescantia sellowiana Kunth
  • Tripogandra elongata f. diuretica (Mart.) Standl. & Steyerm.

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. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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