 Regardless, "Tradescantia longipes" can be distinguished from the former with its longer pedicels and bracts without fine hairs, and from the latter by the presence of at least some glandular hairs on the sepals.Furthermore, "Tradescantia longipes" is a tetraploid, meaning it has four sets of chromosomes, while "Tradescantia hirsuticaulis" is diploid with only two sets.