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Tradescantieae
Tradescantia virginiana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Commelinales
Family:	Commelinaceae
Subfamily:	Commelinoideae
Tribe:	Tradescantieae Meisn.

The Tradescantieae are a tribe of plants in the family Commelinaceae erected by Carl Meissner in 1842. Many genera originate from the Americas, but those in subtribes Coleotrypinae, Cyanotinae, Palisotinae and Streptoliriinae are Asian or African in origin; several species in the typical Tradescantia and other genera have become domesticated ornamental plants and naturalised elsewhere.

Subtribes and genera

The following subtribes remain included, but in their review Zuntini et al. (2021) question their functionality:

Coleotrypinae

1. Amischotolype Hassk.
2. Coleotrype C. B. Clarke
3. Porandra D. Y. Hong

Cyanotinae

1. Belosynapsis Hassk.
2. Cyanotis D. Don

Dichorisandrinae

1. Cochliostema Lem.
2. Dichorisandra J. C. Mikan
3. Geogenanthus Ule
4. Plowmanianthus Faden & C. R. Hardy
5. Siderasis Raf.

Palisotinae

1. Palisota Rchb.

Streptoliriinae

1. Aetheolirion Forman
2. Spatholirion Ridl.
3. Streptolirion Edgew.

Thyrsantheminae

1. Gibasoides D. R. Hunt
2. Matudanthus D. R. Hunt
3. Thyrsanthemum Pichon
4. Tinantia Scheidw.
5. Weldenia Schult. f.

Tradescantiinae

1. Callisia Loefl.
2. Elasis D. R. Hunt
3. Gibasis Raf.
4. Tradescantia L.
5. Tripogandra Raf.

References

1. Meissner (1842) Plantarum vascularium genera secundum ordines naturales digesta eorumque differentiae et affinitates tabulis diagnosticis expositae. Weidmann, Lipsiae . 406.
2. Zuntini AR, Frankel LP, Pokorny, Forest F, Baker WJ (2021) A comprehensive phylogenomic study of the monocot order Commelinales, with a new classification of Commelinaceae. American Journal of Botany 108(7): 1066–1086.

External Links

• Media related to Tradescantieae at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Tradescantieae at Wikispecies

• Monocot tribes
• Commelinaceae