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'''''Ruellia''''' ('''Wild petunia'''; [[synonymy|syn.]] ''Aphragmia'', ''Arrhostoxylum'', ''Copioglossa'', ''Dinteracanthus'', ''Dipteracanthus'', ''Eurychanes'', ''Nothoruellia'', ''Sclerocalyx'', ''Stenoschista'') is a [[genus (biology)|genus]] of plants in the family [[Acanthaceae]]. {{Inc| Ruellia (after Jean de la Ruelle, a French botanist). Syn. Stephanophysum. Acanthaceae. Villous, pubescent or rarely glabrous herbs or shrubs, a few species grown under glass and also outdoors mainly in the South. Leaves opposite, entire or rarely dentate: fls. shades of blue or purple to violet, white, rose to red and rarely yellow to orange, sessile to long-peduncled, axillary, solitary or fascicled or cymose paniculate; calyx deeply 5-cleft or 5-parted, segms. linear or lanceolate; corolla-tube straight incurved or abruptly inflexed, the limb spreading, the lobes ovate or rounded; stamens 4, didynamous: caps, oblong-linear or clavate. About 200 species, chiefly Trop. S. Amer., a few in N. Amer. and extra-Trop. S. Amer., some in Trop. and S. Afr., Temp. Asia and in Austral. R. solitaria, Veil., is offered in the European trade, but its identity is doubtful, as R. solitaria, Vell., has been referred by some to R. Schnaeriana, Lindau, by others to R. calvescens, Lindau.—R. varians, Vent., is Daedalacanthus nervosus. }} ==Cultivation== ===Propagation=== ===Pests and diseases=== ==Species== * ''[[Ruellia acutangula]]'' [[Nees]] ex [[Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius|Mart.]] * ''[[Ruellia amoena]]'' Nees * ''[[Ruellia angustifolia]]'' [[Sessé]] et [[Moc.]] * ''[[Ruellia angustior]]'' (Nees) [[Gustav Lindau|Lindau]] * ''[[Ruellia asperula]]'' [[George Bentham|Benth.]] et [[Hook.f.]] * ''[[Ruellia brevicaulis]]'' [[John Gilbert Baker|Baker]] * ''[[Ruellia capitata]]'' [[David Don|D.Don]] * ''[[Ruellia costata|Ruellia (Scorodoxylum) costata]]'' [[William Philip Hiern|Hiern]] * ''[[Ruellia costata|Ruellia (Scorodoxylum) costata]]'' (Nees) Hiern var. latifolium Nees * ''[[Ruellia costata|Ruellia (Scorodoxylum) costata]]'' (Nees) Hiern var. salicifolium Nees * ''[[Ruellia densa]]'' Hiern * ''[[Ruellia diffusa]]'' [[John Forbes Royle|Royle]] ex Nees * ''[[Ruellia dissitifolia]]'' Hiern. * ''[[Ruellia eriocalyx]]'' [[Glaz.]] * ''[[Ruellia eurycodon]]'' Lindau * ''[[Ruellia flava]]'' [[Roxb.]] * ''[[Ruellia formosa]]'' [[Henry Charles Andrews|Andrews]] * ''[[Ruellia geminiflora]]'' [[Carl Sigismund Kunth|Kunth]] * ''[[Ruellia glanduloso-punctata]]'' Lindau * ''[[Ruellia hapalotricha]]'' Lindau * ''[[Ruellia helianthemum]]'' (Nees) Lindau * ''[[Ruellia humilis]]'' [[Pohl]] ex Nees * ''[[Ruellia hypericoides]]'' Lindau * ''[[Ruellia incomta]]'' Lindau * ''[[Ruellia macrantha]]'' [[Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius|Mart.]] ex Nees * ''[[Ruellia menthoides]]'' Hiern * ''[[Ruellia neesiana]]'' Lindau * ''[[Ruellia nitens|Ruellia (Dipteracanthus) nitens]]'' (Nees) [[Wassh.]] * ''[[Ruellia pohlii|Ruellia (Dipteracanthus) pohlii]]'' Nees * ''[[Ruellia puri]]'' [[Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius|Mart.]] ex Nees * ''[[Ruellia rasa]]'' Hiern * ''[[Ruellia rufipila]]'' [[Rizzini]] * ''[[Ruellia stenandrium]]'' Pohl ex Nees * ''[[Ruellia tomentosa]]'' [[Wall.]] * ''[[Ruellia trachyphylla]]'' Lindau * ''[[Ruellia trivialis]]'' [[Blanch.]] ex Nees * ''[[Ruellia tweediana]]'' [[August Grisebach|Griseb.]] * ''[[Ruellia verbaciformis|Ruellia (Eurychanes) verbaciformis]]'' Nees * ''[[Ruellia villosa]]'' Lindau * ''[[Ruellia vindex]]'' [[Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius|Mart.]] ex Nees ==Gallery== <gallery perrow=5> Image:Upload.png| photo 1 Image:Upload.png| photo 2 Image:Upload.png| photo 3 </gallery> ==References== <references/> *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963    ==External links== *{{wplink}} {{stub}} __NOTOC__

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