Tradescantia ambigua Mart. A sterile habit, showing the amplexicaulous leaf-blades B detail of the stem and leaf-sheath, showing the densely hispid leaf-sheath and blade C detail of the leaf-blade, showing the reddish, ciliate margin, and the sparsely hispid blade D fertile habit, showing the axillary, sessile inflorescences E removed leaf, exposing the sessile inflorescence and showing the reduced cincinni bracts (arrows) F post-anthesis flower, showing the apically spirally-coiled filaments. Photograph A by E.O. Moura, D & F by L.J. Leitão, B–C & E by M.O.O. Pellegrini.