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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Ruellia formosa''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Lamiales]]
| familia = [[Acanthaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Ruellia]]''
| species = '''''R. formosa'''''
| binomial = ''Ruellia formosa''
| binomial_authority = [[Henry Charles Andrews|Andrews]]
}}

'''''Ruellia formosa''''' is a [[plant]] native of [[Cerrado]] [[vegetation]] of [[Brazil]], which is usually used like an [[ornamental plant]], and it is pollinated by [[hummingbird]]s.

==References==
La Rue, Carl D. ''Intumescences on Poplar Leaves. I. Structure and Development'' [American Journal of Botany], Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan., 1933), pp. 1-17 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9122%28193301%2920%3A1%3C1%3AIOPLIS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q&size=LARGE#abstract Abstract]

==See also==
* [[List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil]]

==External links==
* [http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/page.asp?relation=QK241H911808V1&identifier=0355 Missouri Botanical Garden: illustration of ''Ruellia formosa'']
* [http://www.biologie.uni-ulm.de/cgi-bin/query_all/details.pl?id=156329&stufe=A&typ=PFL SysTax: ''Ruellia formosa'']

[[Category:Ruellia]]
[[Category:Flora of Brazil]]
{{Acanthaceae-stub}}
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