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Thyrsanthemum laxiflorum is a tuberous geophyte in the spiderwort family, native to central and southwestern Mexico. It is a little-cultivated species, so its care is inferred from close relatives; keep it dry in winter and provide bright light.
Thyrsanthemum laxiflorum is a species of flowering plant in the family Commelinaceae. It is a tuberous geophyte endemic to central and southwestern Mexico (Puebla, Morelos, Nayarit, Jalisco, Michoacán, Oaxaca).
The species was first described as Tradescantia laxiflora by Charles Baron Clarke in 1881. In 1978 David Richard Hunt placed it in the monotypic genus Gibasoides as Gibasoides laxiflora. In 2021 Marco Octávio de Oliveira Pellegrini and Mario Adolfo Espejo Serna placed in genus Thyrsanthemum as Thyrsanthemum laxiflorum.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thyrsanthemum laxiflorum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
