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Rulingia (after J. Ph. Ruling, a botanist of Gottingen). Sterculiaceae. Shrubs or subshrubs with stellate tomentum or hairs, useful as greenhouse plants and for the rockery in warm climates, as the southern United States. Leaves entire, toothed or lobed; stipules narrow and deciduous: fls. mostly white, small, in lf.-opposed or terminal, rarely axillary cymes; calyx 5-lobed; petals 5, broad and concave or convolute at base, with a small, broad, or linear ligula at the top; stamens 5 without anthers, linear-lanceolate and alternate with the petals 5 perfect and opposite the petals; ovary sessile, 5- celled: fr. tomentose or beset with prickles or soft setae, loculicidally valvate.
About 20 species, all Australian except one from Madagascar.
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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