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Slender Ruellia

Ruellia inundata

Slender Ruellia
Photo: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada, CC BY 2.0
Family
Acanthaceae (Acanthus family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Mexico to S. Trop. America and Curaçao
Climate
wet tropical

About

Ruellia inundata is a subshrub plant, in the genus Ruellia, family Acanthaceae and is a perennial herbaceous plant first described by the German botanist Carl Sigismund Kunth.

A plant whose distribution occurs in North and South America, especially in the regions of Mexico, Colombia and Brazil is not endemic to its germination.

Other Ruellia plants

Ruellia acutangula · Ruellia affinis · Ruellia angustior · Ruellia asperula · Ruellia bahiensis · Browne's Blechum · Ruellia brevicaulis · Tropical wild petunia · Ruellia californica · Carolina wild petunia · Ruellia currorii · Ruellia densa

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ruellia inundata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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