Ruellia glischrocalyx Lindau

• Authority

  Wasshausen, Dieter C. & Wood, John R. I. 2004. Acanthaceae of Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 49: 1-152.

• Family

  Acanthaceae

• Scientific Name

  Ruellia glischrocalyx Lindau

• Type

  TYPE: Peru, Loreto, Pampas de Ponasa, Ule 6817 (holotype B, destroyed; lectotype, here chosen, HBG). Ruellia quadrilbria (Nees) Lindau, in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pfanzenfam. 4, Abt. 3b:311. 1895., non RueIlia quadrifolia Wall. 1832. - Stephanophysum quadrifarium Nees, in DC., Prodr. 11:202. 1847. TYPE: Peru, Ruiz s.n. (holotype B, destroyed; F photo 18216).

• Description

  Description - Shrubby; stems glabrous: leaf blades oblong, glabrous, apically long and obliquely acuminate: inflorescence terminal, forming a capitulum composed of a short panicle; bracts and bracteoles obscuring base of capitulum, glandular-puberulous; pedicels equaling calyx lobes, these equal, oblong, glandular pubescent; corolla white, tube 60 mm long, cylindric to middle, apically enlarged, densely puberulous, lobes rotundate.