7965.000 Ruellia L.

STEPHANOPHYSUM Pohl

Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.

Fayaz, F. (2011) Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants Firefly Books, New Zealand

Description of the genus

Perennial herbs, erect or prostrate, or shrubs. Leaves simple, opposite, petiolate or sessile; margins entire. Inflorescence axillary or terminal; either solitary or in cymes or panicles; bracts inconspicuous. Flowers often showy in cultivated species, red, yellow, purple or white. Calyx deeply 5-partite; lobes linear or lanceolate. Corolla tube usually straight, with 5 ± equal lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous. Fruit a capsule. Seeds 4-20 flattened, ovate or orbicular on strong retinacula.

Derivation of name: After Jean de la Ruelle, 1474 - 1537, French physician and botanist.

Worldwide: 250 species in tropical and temperate regions.

Mozambique: 5 taxa.

Ruellia cordata

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
bignoniiflora (Lindau) S. MooreTDescription, Image
cordata Thunb.MS,GI,MDescription, Image
patula Jacq.Z,GI,MDescription, Image
praetermissa Lindau N
prostrata Poir.N,Z,T,MSDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Ruellia:

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Flora of Botswana: Ruellia
Flora of Caprivi: Ruellia
Flora of Malawi: Ruellia
Flora of Zambia: Ruellia
Flora of Zambia: cultivated Ruellia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Ruellia
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Ruellia

External websites:

ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Ruellia
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Ruellia
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Ruellia
Wikipedia: Ruellia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Ruellia
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Ruellia

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-23

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Ruellia.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1337, retrieved 28 March 2023

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