Ruellia

• Authority

  Leonard, Emery C. 1951. The Acanthaceae of Colombia, I. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 31: 1-117.

• Family

  Acanthaceae

• Scientific Name

  Ruellia L.

• Description

  Description - Perennial herbs or shrubs; leaves petioled, entire, undulate, or rarely dentate; flowers usually large and showy, solitary or clustered in the axils or borne on terminal cymose panicles; calyx usually 5-parted, the segments often narrow; corolla red, yellow, white, or purple (usually mauve), funnelform or salverform, sometimes saccate, the tube usually narrow below, the upper portion more or less campanulate, the limb of 5 obtuse spreading lobes; stamens 4, didynamous, the anther sacs blunt at base; stigma lobes unequal; capsules oblong or clavate.