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Genus: Ruspolia

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

The 4 species are native to Africa and Madagascar, 3 of which occur in southern Africa.

Species indigenous to southern Africa

Ruspolia decurrens 

 

Ruspolia hypocrateriformis (Red Ruspolia)

Rooiruspolia [Afrikaans]

See KwaZulu-Natal Wildflowers by Elsa Pooley p. 78; Creative gardening with indigenous plants. A South African Guide by Pitta Joffe p. 207.

 

Ruspolia seticalyx

 
 

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