Ruellia repens L.

Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Acanthaceae > Ruellia

Characteristics

Herbs 15-50 cm tall, perennial, creeping. Roots lacking tuberlike swellings. Stems almost 4-angled, finely pubescent or glabrescent. Petiole 3-5 mm; leaf blade ovate to linear-lanceolate, 1.4-4 × 0.8-2 cm, thinly papery, both surfaces sparsely strigose, secondary veins 4 or 5 on each side of midvein, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin subentire, apex acuminate to acute. Flowers axillary, solitary [or clustered]; bracteoles subleaflike, ovate to ovate-oblong, 8-10 mm. Pedicel to 1 mm. Calyx lobes lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, margin sparingly ciliate. Corolla white [or pink to light purple], 1.2-2 cm, outside pilose; tube basally ca. 2 mm wide for ca. 5 mm then ventricose and gradually widened to ca. 5 mm at mouth; lobes ovate, ca. 3 × 3 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens with longer pair ca. 5 mm and shorter pair ca. 2 mm; filaments glabrous; anther thecae ca. 1 mm. Ovary comose; style ca. 1 cm, hirsute; stigma lobes unequal. Capsule brownish yellow, stipitate, ca. 1.2 cm, slightly pilose, 12-16-seeded; septa with attached retinacula remaining attached to inner wall of mature capsule. Seeds discoid, ca. 3 mm in diam., margin with a conspicuous band of appressed hygroscopic trichomes. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Jul-Aug. 2n = 24.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.15 - 0.5
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JulAugSep
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Therapeutic use Appendicitis (unspecified), Abdomen (unspecified), Toothache (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Wound (unspecified)
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 30 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
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Images

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Distribution

Ruellia repens world distribution map, present in Australia, China, Micronesia (Federated States of), Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:54502-1
WFO ID wfo-0001221021
COL ID 4TNGW
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Synonyms

Ruellia hirtella Dipteracanthus lanceolatus Dipteracanthus repens Dipteracanthus cernuus Ruellia repens Ruellia cernua