Commelina coelestis

1. Commelina coelestis Willd. (Am.) – A very rare and casual garden escape. First recorded in Lokeren in 1999 (border of a maize-field). Also observed in a road verge in Ham (Kwaadmechelen) in 2008. Perhaps less frequently cultivated nowadays and apparently seldom seen as an escape.

Commelina coelestis, Kwaadmechelen, roadside, October 2008, R. Barendse.

Herbarium specimen

 


Selected literature:

Calderon de Rzedowski G. & Rzedowski J. (1988) Nota sobre el género Commelina (Commelinaceae) en el Valle de México con cambios en la nomenclatura de algunas de sus especies. Madroño 35: 16-22.

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith