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Collector Gillett JB, #12857
Collection Date 1952-04-21
Resource Type Specimens
Country Kenya
Herbarium EA
Identifications Ruellia prostrata (Nees) T.Anderson [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name)
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Collector Timberlake & Sampson, #211
Collection Date 1976-07-26
Resource Type Specimens
Country Kenya
Herbarium EA
Identifications Ruellia prostrata (Nees) T.Anderson [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name)
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Type of Ruellia prostrata Poir. var. rivularis R.Benoist [family ACANTHACEAE]

Type of Ruellia prostrata Poir. var. rivularis R.Benoist [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector Boivin L.H., #None
Collection Date 1851-03
Resource Type Specimens
Country Madagascar
Herbarium P
Identifications Ruellia rivularis (R.Benoist) R.Benoist [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name)
Type of Ruellia prostrata Poir. var. rivularis R.Benoist [family ACANTHACEAE]
Type of Ruellia prostrata Poir. var. rivularis R.Benoist [family ACANTHACEAE]

Type of Ruellia prostrata Poir. var. rivularis R.Benoist [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector Boivin L.H., #None
Collection Date 1851-03
Resource Type Specimens
Country Madagascar
Herbarium P
Identifications Ruellia rivularis (R.Benoist) R.Benoist [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name)
Type of Ruellia prostrata Poir. var. rivularis R.Benoist [family ACANTHACEAE]
Ruellia prostrata Poir [family ACANTHACEAE]

Ruellia prostrata Poir [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector Schweinfurth, G., #131
Collection Date 18-06-1865
Resource Type Specimens
Country Sudan
Herbarium K
Identifications Ruellia prostrata Poir [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name)
Ruellia genduana (Schweinf.) C.B.Clarke [family ACANTHACEAE]; Verified by Clarke, C.B.,
Dipteracanthus genduanus Schweinf. [family ACANTHACEAE]
Type of Dipteracanthus genduanus Schweinf. [family ACANTHACEAE]

Type of Dipteracanthus genduanus Schweinf. [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector Schweinfurth,G., #132
Collection Date 1865
Resource Type Specimens
Country Unknown
Herbarium BM
Identifications Ruellia prostrata Poir. [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Vollesen,K.
Type of Dipteracanthus genduanus Schweinf. [family ACANTHACEAE]
Syntype of Dipteracanthus prostratus Nees var. parvifolius Nees [family ACANTHACEAE]

Syntype of Dipteracanthus prostratus Nees var. parvifolius Nees [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector Sonnerat, P., #s.n.
Collection Date None
Resource Type Specimens
Country Unknown
Herbarium C
Identifications Syntype of Dipteracanthus prostratus Nees var. parvifolius Nees [family ACANTHACEAE]
Ruellia prostrata (Nees) Anderson [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name)
Ruellia pedunculis [family ACANTHACEAE]
Syntype of Dipteracanthus prostratus var. macrophyllus Nees [family ACANTHACEAE]

Syntype of Dipteracanthus prostratus var. macrophyllus Nees [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector Not on Sheet, #s.n.
Collection Date None
Resource Type Specimens
Country India
Herbarium M
Identifications Ruellia prostrata Poir. [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name)
Syntype of Dipteracanthus prostratus var. macrophyllus Nees [family ACANTHACEAE]; Verified by Montes de Oca, P., 2012/08/03
Filed as Ruellia prostrata Poir. [family ACANTHACEAE]

Filed as Ruellia prostrata Poir. [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector Hemp,A., #5677
Collection Date 2012-05-12
Resource Type Specimens
Country Tanzania
Herbarium UBT
Identifications Ruellia prostrata Poir. [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Hemp, A.
Filed as Ruellia prostrata Poir. [family ACANTHACEAE]

Filed as Ruellia prostrata Poir. [family ACANTHACEAE]

Collector Hemp,A., #5574
Collection Date 2012-05-17
Resource Type Specimens
Country Tanzania
Herbarium UBT
Identifications Ruellia prostrata Poir. [family ACANTHACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Hemp, A.
RUELLIA linearibracteolata Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]

RUELLIA linearibracteolata Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]

Entry From Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Hedrén (Asystasia, Barleria, Duosperma, Hypoestes, Ichthyostoma, Isoglossa, Justicia, Lepidagathis, Peristrophe, Ruellia, Ruspolia) and M. Thulin (Acanthus, Anisotes, Blepharis, Crabbea, Crossandra, Dicliptera, Dyschoriste, Ecbolium, Elytraria, Megalochlamys, Neuracanthus, Rhinacanthus, Ruttya, Satanocrater, Thunbergia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range N1–3; C1, 2; S1, 2
Information Small shrub or perennial herb up to 10–45 cm tall; young stems pale green, densely pubescent with patent up to 0.7 mm long glandular and eglandular hairs; old stems pale grey. Leaf-blades linear to narrowly lanceolate or rarely narrowly ovate, up to 35–90 x 3–9 mm, with prominent pale veins, densely ciliate-pubescent with up to 1.5 mm patent white hairs and thin glandular hairs, apex acute, base attenuate; petiole indistinct. Flowers single in leaf axils, subsessile; bracteoles leaf-like, up to 17–22 x 2 mm. Calyx-lobes with pale midvein and broad hyaline margins, narrowly triangular-subulate, up to 5–12 x 1 mm, enlarged in fruit, fairly densely hairy with up to 0.8 mm long somewhat antrorse hairs especially along midvein and margin. Corolla blue or white, at least up to c. 15–28 mm long and 10–12 mm across; tube funnel-shaped, up to 10–12 mm long; lobes with free part 5–6 mm long. Anthers c. 1.5 mm long. Capsule elongate and slender, 8–16-seeded, up to 12–16 x 2–3 mm, fairly densely pubescent with c. 0.2 mm long appressed simple hairs all over.
Ruellia prostrata Poir. [family ACANTHACEAE]

Ruellia prostrata Poir. [family ACANTHACEAE]

Entry From Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2008) Author: Kaj Vollesen
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range DISTR. U 1–4; K 1–7; T 1–8 possibly introduced in SE Asia
Information Erect to decumbent perennial herb to 50 cm tall with several stems from woody rootstock or erect to scrambling subshrub to 1.5 m tall; young stems subglabrous to densely puberulous, pubescent or pilose with broad glossy straight or curly spreading or upwardly directed non-glandular hairs. Leaves with petiole (0–)3–20(–30) mm long; lamina lanceolate to broadly ovate or broadly elliptic, largest (3–)4–10(–14)≈(0.5–)1–6(–7) cm, apex acute to rounded, base attenuate to truncate, subglabrous to pubescent, densest along veins. Flowers solitary or in 2–3-flowered axillary cymes; pedicels 1–2.5 mm long, glabrous to puberulous; bracteoles (bracts in cymes) lanceolate to broadly ovate, 7–23≈2–16 mm. Calyx (6–)9–23(–27) mm long, divided to 1–3 mm from base, with filiform pubescent- to pilose-ciliate lobes with hairs to 2 mm long, otherwise glabrous to puberulous. Corolla falling early in the morning, white to mauve or purple; tube 14–28 mm long of which the basal cylindric part 4–10 mm and the throat 11–21 mm; lobes 6–16≈5–14 mm, elliptic or broadly so with entire to crenate-dentate edge. Stamens included in throat, didynamous, anthers not or slightly overlapping; filaments fused for 1–2 mm at base, free parts 2–4 and 5–8 mm long; anthers 1.5–3 mm long. Ovary densely puberulous; ventral stigma lobe 1–2≈± 0.5 mm. Capsule narrowly oblanceolate to clavate, puberulous to sericeous (very rarely glabrous), (13–)15–24 mm long, (6–)8–16-seeded. Seed ovoid to orbicular, grey to brown, 3–4≈3–4 mm. Fig. 31, 10–11, p. 206.
RUELLIA prostrata Poir. [family ACANTHACEAE]

RUELLIA prostrata Poir. [family ACANTHACEAE]

Entry From Flora Somalia, (2000) Author: by M. Hedrén (Asystasia, Barleria, Duosperma, Hypoestes, Ichthyostoma, Isoglossa, Justicia, Lepidagathis, Peristrophe, Ruellia, Ruspolia) and M. Thulin (Acanthus, Anisotes, Blepharis, Crabbea, Crossandra, Dicliptera, Dyschoriste, Ecbolium, Elytraria, Megalochlamys, Neuracanthus, Rhinacanthus, Ruttya, Satanocrater, Thunbergia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range N1, 2; S1, 3 Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan and south to South Africa, also on the Arabian Peninsula and eastwards to southern Asia and the Pacific Island.
Information Prostrate ascending or erect annual to perennial herb, up to 25–40 cm tall or more; stems green to greyish green with a sparse to fairly dense indumentum of up to 3 mm long irregularly spreading hairs. Leaf-blades lanceolate to broadly ovate, up to 26–65 x 10–55 mm, sparsely pubescent with somewhat antrorse up to 2 mm long hairs along veins and margins, apex obtuse or acute, base shortly attenuate; petiole up to 4–15 mm. Flowers single at upper nodes on peduncles c. 1 mm long; bracteoles leaf-like, up to 10–15 x 4–11 mm with petiole up to c. 2–4 mm long. Calyx-lobes narrowly triangular-subulate, often with a prominent hyaline margin, densely pubescent with 0.3–1 mm long somewhat antrorse hairs, up to 6–15 x 1 mm at flowering, slightly enlarged in fruit. Corolla mauve to deep blue, up to c. 20–35 mm long; tube narrowly funnel-shaped, 13–22 mm long; lobes free from each other for up to 6–10 mm. Anthers c. 2.5 mm long. Capsule elongate and slender, c. 12–16-seeded, 16–22 mm long, finely pubescent with appressed 0.1–0.3 mm long hairs.
Ruellia praetermissa Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]

Ruellia praetermissa Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]

Entry From Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2008) Author: Kaj Vollesen
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range DISTR. U 1; T 8
Information Erect perennial with single stems to 60 cm tall from creeping rhizome; young stems pilose or sparsely so with broad curly glossy glandular hairs to 2 mm long. Leaves with petiole 5–25 mm long; lamina ovate or broadly so, largest 4–7.5≈2.2–4.2 cm, apex acute, base cuneate to truncate (rarely subcordate), pubescent to pilose or sparsely so. Flowers solitary or in 2-flowered axillary cymes; peduncle in cymes 3–7 mm long; pedicels 1–3 mm long, glabrous to pilose; bracteoles (bracts in cymes) ovate-elliptic or narrowly so, 11–27≈3–12 mm. Calyx 5–7 mm long, divided to (1–)2–3 mm from base, glabrous or lobes with scattered pilose hairs; lobes narrowly triangular. Corolla open during the day, mauve; tube 16–23 mm long of which the basal cylindric part 6–8 mm and the throat 8–13 mm long; lobes 8–12≈6–11 mm, ovate-elliptic with entire to slightly crenate margin. Stamens included in throat, didynamous, anthers not overlapping; filaments fused for 1–2 mm at base, free parts 2–3 and 5–8 mm long; anthers 1.5–2 mm long. Ovary glabrous; ventral stigma lobe 1–1.5≈0.5–1 mm. Capsule clavate, glabrous, 13–18 mm long, 8–14-seeded. Seed ellipsoid to circular, brown, 3–3.5≈2.5–3.5 mm.
Ruellia linearibracteolata Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]

Ruellia linearibracteolata Lindau [family ACANTHACEAE]

Entry From Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2008) Author: Kaj Vollesen
Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Resource Type Reference Sources
Range DISTR. U 1; K 1, 2, 6, 7
Information Shrubby perennial herb or shrub to 0.5(–1) m tall; young stems glabrous except often with long broad curly glossy hairs to 3 mm long near nodes. Leaves with petiole 0–10 mm long, with long broad curly glossy hairs to 3 mm long; lamina narrowly ovate to ovate or elliptic, largest 2.5–8.5≈0.6–2.2 cm, apex acute, base attenuate, decurrent on petiole, pubescent or sparsely so, densest along veins, margin distinctly ciliate. Flowers solitary or in 3-flowered axillary dichasia; pedicels 0.5–1.5 mm long, glabrous to puberulous; bracteoles (bracts in cymes) narrowly ovate to ovate, 10–20≈3–8 mm. Calyx 6–11 mm long, divided to 3–5 mm from base (i.e. normally about half way), with ciliate lobes, otherwise glabrous or with a few hairs along ribs; lobes triangular or narrowly so. Corolla falling early in the morning, pale mauve to purple, with darker lines in throat; tube 15–17 mm long of which the basal cylindric part 4–5 mm and the throat 11–12 mm long; lobes 8–11≈7–10 mm, ovate-elliptic or broadly so, with entire to crenate margin. Stamens included in throat, didynamous, anthers not overlapping; filaments fused for ± 0.5 mm at base, free parts 1–3 and 4–6 mm long; anthers ± 2 mm long. Ovary with sparse appressed hairs; ventral stigma lobe 1–1.5≈± 0.5 mm. Capsule narrowly oblanceolate, with appressed hairs, eventually glabrous, 17–22 mm long, 8–12-seeded. Mature seed not seen.

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