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.

Zimbabwe: 4 taxa.

Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

Species	FZ divisions	Content
bignoniiflora (Lindau) S. Moore	N,S	Description, Image
cordata Thunb.	N,W,C,E,S	Description, Image
patula Jacq.	W,C,E,S	Description, Image
prostrata Poir.	N,W,C,E,S	Description, Image

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Flora of Malawi: Ruellia
Flora of Mozambique: Ruellia
Flora of Rwanda: Ruellia
Flora of Zambia: Ruellia
Flora of Zambia: cultivated Ruellia
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Ruellia

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Ruellia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Ruellia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Ruellia
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Ruellia
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