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Genus of flowering plants
Ruellia Ruellia tuberosa Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade :Tracheophytes Clade :Angiosperms Clade :Eudicots Clade :Asterids Order: Lamiales Family: Acanthaceae Subfamily: Acanthoideae Tribe: Ruellieae Genus: Ruellia L. [1] Species Many, see text
Synonyms [2] Alvarezia Pav. ex Nees Aphragmia Nees Aporuellia C.B.Clarke Arrhostoxylum Mart. ex Nees Benoicanthus Heine A.Raynal Blechum P.Browne Copioglossa Miers Cryphiacanthus Nees Cyrtacanthus Mart. ex Nees Dipteracanthus Nees Dizygandra Meisn. Endosiphon T.Anderson ex Benth. Hook.f. Eurychanes Nees Eusiphon Benoist Fabria E.Mey. Gymnacanthus Nees Gymnacanthus Oerst. Holtzendorffia Klotzsch H.Karst. ex Nees Larysacanthus Oerst. Lychniothyrsus Lindau Micraea Miers Neowedia Schrad. Nothoruellia Bremek. Nann.-Bremek. Ophthalmacanthus Nees Pattersonia J.F.Gmel. Pentstemonacanthus Nees Pseudoruellia Benoist Salpingacanthus S.Moore Sclerocalyx Nees Scorodoxylum Nees Siphonacanthus Nees Solaenacanthus Oerst. Spirostigma Nees Stemonacanthus Nees Stenoschista Bremek. Stephanophysum Pohl Tacoanthus Baill. Tremacanthus S.Moore Ulleria Bremek.
Ruellia is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as ruellias or wild petunias .[3] They are not closely related to petunias (Petunia ) although both genera belong to the same euasterid clade . The genus was named in honor of Jean Ruelle (1474–1537), herbalist and physician to Francis I of France and translator of several works of Dioscorides .[4]
Numerous formerly independent genera are nowadays considered synonymous with Ruellia , including Blechum , Eusiphon , and Ulleria .[2] Acanthopale and Polylychnis are considered a distinct genera.
Ruellias are popular ornamental plants . Some are used as medicinal plants , but many are known or suspected to be poisonous. Their leaves are food for the caterpillars of several Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), typically Nymphalinae and in particular members of their tribe Junoniini , such as the larvae of the banded peacock (Anartia fatima ). Nymphalinae using Ruellia as host plants include the common buckeye (Junonia coenia ), recorded on R. nodiflora , the lemon pansy (Junonia lemonias ), recorded on R. tuberosa , and the malachite butterfly (Siproeta stelenes ) and Australian lurcher (Yoma sabina ), which are recorded on several species.
Ruellia elegans Bell weed (Ruellia prostrata ) Ruellia dipteracanthus Selected species 365 species are accepted.[2] They include:
Ruellia acutangula Nees Ruellia affinis (Schrad.) T.Anderson Ruellia angustior (Nees) Lindau Ruellia asperula (Mart. & Nees) Lindau Ruellia bahiensis (Nees) Morong Ruellia blechum L. Ruellia blumei Steud. Ruellia bourgaei Hemsl. Ruellia brevifolia (Pohl) C.Ezcurra – tropical wild petunia, red Christmas prideRuellia californica (Vasey & Rose) I.M.Johnst. Ruellia caroliniensis (J.F.Gmel.) Steud. Ruellia chartacea (T.Anderson) Wassh. Ruellia ciliatiflora Hook. Ruellia currorii T.Anderson Ruellia densa Hiern Ruellia devosiana Jacob-Makoy ex E.Morren Ruellia dielsii Mildbr. Ruellia dioscoridis Napper Ruellia dissitifolia (Nees) Hiern Ruellia drummondiana (Nees) A.Gray Ruellia elegans Poir. Ruellia eurycodon Lindau Ruellia fulgida Andrews Ruellia geminiflora Kunth – ipecacuanha-da-flor-roxa (Portuguese )Ruellia hapalotricha Lindau Ruellia helianthema (Nees) Profice Ruellia humilis Nutt. – fringeleaf wild petunia, plains petunia, fringeleaf ruellia, hairy ruellia, low ruellia, zigzag ruelRuellia hypericoides (Nees) Lindau Ruellia incomta (Nees) Lindau Ruellia insignis Balf.f. Ruellia jaliscana Standl. Ruellia jussieuoides Schltdl. & Cham. Ruellia kuriensis Vierh. Ruellia macrantha (Nees) Gower – Christmas prideRuellia macrophylla Vahl Ruellia makoyana Hort.Makoy ex Closon Ruellia mcvaughii T.F.Daniel Ruellia menthoides (Nees) Hiern Ruellia multifolia (Nees) Lindau Ruellia nitens (Nees) Wassh. Ruellia noctiflora (Nees) A.Gray Ruellia novogaliciana T.F. Daniel Ruellia nudiflora (Engelm. & A.Gray) Urb. Ruellia patula Jacq. Ruellia paulayana Vierh. Ruellia pedunculata Torr. ex A.Gray Ruellia prostrata Poir. Ruellia rasa Hiern Ruellia rosea (Nees) Hemsl. Ruellia rufipila Rizzini Ruellia simplex C.Wright Ruellia spissa Leonard Ruellia stemonacanthoides (Oerst.) Hemsl. Ruellia strepens L. Ruellia trachyphylla Lindau Ruellia tuberosa L. – minnie root, fever root, snapdragon root, sheep potato, popping pod, duppy gun, cracker plant (syn. R. picta )Ruellia verbasciformis (Nees) C.Ezcurra & Zappi Ruellia villosa (Nees) Lindau Uncertain status Formerly placed here Numerous plants, mainly in the family Acanthaceae , are former members of Ruellia . Some examples are:
See also 21540 Itthipanyanan , an asteroid named after a student who authored an award-winning experiment[6] on the dehiscence and dispersion of Ruellia tuberosa seed pods.References External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to
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