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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Britton's wild petunia
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Lamiales]]
| familia = [[Acanthaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Ruellia]]''
| species = '''''R. angustifolia'''''
| binomial = ''Ruellia angustifolia''
| binomial_authority = [[Sessé]] et [[Moc.]]
}}
'''Britton's wild petunia''' or Mexican Bluebell ([[Synonymy|syn.]] ''Arrhostoxylum microphyllum'', ''Blechum angustifolium'' ([[Sw.]]) [[R.Br.]]), ''Cryphiacanthus angustifolius'' [[Nees]], ''Ruellia brittoniana'' [[Leonard]], ''Ruellia ignorantiae'' [[Herter]], ''Ruellia microphylla'' [[Lindau]], ''Ruellia spectabilis'' [[Britton]], ''Ruellia tweediana'' [[Griseb.]]) is an [[ornamental plant]] native of [[Argentina]], [[Cerrado]] and [[Pantanal]] [[vegetation]] of [[Brazil]], [[Mexico]] and [[Paraguay]].
==See also==
* [[List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil]]
==External links==
*{{fr icon}} [http://nature.jardin.free.fr/1104/ruellia_brittoniana.html ''Ruellia brittoniana'']
[[Category:Ruellia]]
[[Category:Flora of Brazil]]
{{Acanthaceae-stub}}