Ruellia insignis - Unknown
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Internal ID UUID643ff876b0750783092895
Scientific name Ruellia insignis
Authority Balf.f.
First published in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 12: 85 (1883)

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It is a small, perennial herb with a woody stem and grows up to 30 cm tall. The leaves are ovate-lanceolate, up to 4 cm long, and have a serrate margin. The flowers are white, with a yellow center, and are up to 1 cm in diameter. The fruit is a capsule, up to 1 cm long.

Ruellia insignis is a small, perennial herb found only in Yemen. It has a woody stem and grows up to 30 cm tall. Its leaves are ovate-lanceolate, up to 4 cm long, and have a serrate margin. The flowers are white with a yellow center and up to 1 cm in diameter. The fruit is a capsule, up to 1 cm long. It is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae.

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World Flora Online wfo-0000401063
Tropicos 100482899
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:54189-1
The Plant List kew-2420157
Open Tree Of Life 399922
NCBI Taxonomy 440971
IUCN Red List 37871
IPNI 54189-1
iNaturalist 443152
GBIF 5574257
Freebase /m/02xcsyq
Wikipedia Ruellia_insignis

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