Ruellia

Genus: Ruellia

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Euasterid I > Order: Lamiales> Family: Acanthaceae

About 150 species, native to America, Africa, Asia and Australia. About 15 species in southern Africa.

Ruellia sp. nov. 1 (incorrectly known as Ruellia patula) See KwaZulu-Natal Wildflowers by Elsa Pooley p. 198.
Ruellia sp. nov. 2 See KwaZulu-Natal Wildflowers by Elsa Pooley p. 488.
Ruellia aspera
Ruellia baurii
Ruellia bignoniiflora
Ruellia brandbergensis
Ruellia cordata (Veld Violet) See KwaZulu-Natal Wildflowers by Elsa Pooley p. 488; Wild Flowers of the Highveld by Braam van Wyk and Sasa Malan p. 242
Ruellia currorii
Ruellia diversifolia
Ruellia malacophylla
Ruellia otaviensis
Ruellia patula See Transvaal Lowveld and escarpment wild flowers by Jo Onderstall p. 182.
Ruellia pilosa
Ruellia stenophylla
Ruellia woodii