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Internal ID UUID643ff885164c1521905774
Scientific name Rungia pectinata
Authority Nees
First published in Prodr. 11: 470 (1847)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Justicia pectinata L. Cent. Pl. II : 3 (1756)
Justicia infracta Vahl Enum. Pl. 1: 155 (1804)
Justicia coerulea Steud. Nomencl. Bot. , ed. 2, 1: 837 (1840)
Justicia ciliaris Russ. ex Nees Prodr. 11: 470 (1847)
Rungia coerulea Warb. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 13: 422 (1891)
Rungia polygonoides Nees Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 110 (1832)
Rungia origanoides Nees Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 110 (1832)
Rungia parviflora (Retz) Nees Pl. Asiat. Rar. 3: 110 (1832)
Dianthera parviflora Roxb. ex Nees Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 11: 471. 1847 [25 Nov 1847]
Diapedium pectinatum Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 484 (1891)
Dicliptera coerulea Blume Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. : 790 (1826)
Dicliptera pectinata Juss. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 9: 169 (1807)
Rungia parviflora subsp. pectinata (L.) L.H.Cramer in M.D. Dassanayake & W.D. Clayton, eds., Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 12: 105 (1998).
Rungia parviflora var. pectinata (L.) C.B.Clarke
Rungia pectinata var. clarkeana Hand.-Mazz. Symb. Sin. 7(4): 898 1936
Rungia angustifolia Bremek. Dansk Bot. Ark. 23: 278 (1966)
Rungia longifolia Bedd. Icon. Pl. Ind. Or. : t. 266 (1874)
Ruellia dependens Hook. ex Nees Prodr. 11: 470 (1847)
Justicia parviflora var. ciliata (Bremek.) Karthig. & Lakshmin. Fl. Pl. India Annot. Checkl. Dicot. 2: 318 (2020)
Rungia parviflora var. ciliata Bremek. Dansk Bot. Ark. 20: 88 (1961)
Rungia latior var. malabarensis Hochr. Candollea 5: 238 (1934)
Rungia coerulea var. parvifolia Bremek. Verh. Kon. Ned. Akad. Wetensch., Afd. Natuurk., Sect. 2 , 45(2): 77 (1948)
Diapedium latius var. integerrimum Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 484 (1891)
Diapedium pectinatum var. parviflorum (Retz.) Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 484 (1891)
Diapedium pectinatum f. lacteum Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 484 (1891)
Diapedium pectinatum var. murale Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 484 (1891)
Diapedium pectinatum var. brevifolium Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 484 (1891)
Rungia parviflora var. aspera Nees Prodr. 11: 470 (1847)
Rungia parviflora var. submutica Nees Prodr. 11: 470 (1847)
Rungia parviflora var. hirsuta Nees Prodr. 11: 470 (1847)
Justicia parviflora Retz. Observ. Bot. 5: 9 (1788)
Justicia repens Vahl ex Nees Prodr. 11: 470 (1847)
Rungia repens T.Anderson J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 9: 518 (1867)

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Chinese 孩儿草
Chinese 疳积草
Chinese 狭叶孩儿草

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  • Asia-temperate
    • Arabian Peninsula
      • Oman
      • Yemen
    • China
      • China South-central
      • China Southeast
      • Hainan
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • Assam
      • Bangladesh
      • East Himalaya
      • India
      • Laccadive Islands
      • Maldives
      • Nepal
      • Sri Lanka
      • West Himalaya
    • Indo-China
      • Andaman Islands
      • Cambodia
      • Laos
      • Myanmar
      • Thailand
      • Vietnam
    • Malesia
      • Jawa
      • Malaya

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000401426
Tropicos 100100
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:54799-1
The Plant List kew-2420819
Open Tree Of Life 923830
NCBI Taxonomy 1205775
IPNI 54799-1
iNaturalist 533142
GBIF 3780135
EPPO RNGPE
EOL 2895636
USDA GRIN 423518
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:54745-1
Open Tree Of Life 6078131
IPNI 54745-1
GBIF 3780675
EPPO RNGAN

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Complete plastid genome structure of 13 Asian Justicia (Acanthaceae) species: comparative genomics and phylogenetic analyses Niu Z, Lin Z, Tong Y, Chen X, Deng Y BMC Plant Biol 15-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10647099
doi:10.1186/s12870-023-04532-0
PMID:37964203
Multiple Site Dissimilarities of Herbaceous Species Due to Coal Fly Ash Dumping Based Soil Heavy Metal Toxication Singh DK, Singh A, Gacem A, Kashyap S, Yadav VK, Yadav KK, Hussein HS, Shukla NK, Alsuhaibani AM, Abdellattif MH, Lee C, Lee W, Modi T, Jeon BH Toxics 18-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC9968134
doi:10.3390/toxics11020090
PMID:36850966
Analysis of Phenolic and Flavonoid Content, α-Amylase Inhibitory and Free Radical Scavenging Activities of Some Medicinal Plants Pandey LK, Sharma KR ScientificWorldJournal 03-Oct-2022
PMCID:PMC9550511
doi:10.1155/2022/4000707
PMID:36225946
The complete chloroplast genome of Rungia pectinata (Acanthaceae) Lin Z, Huang S, Deng Y Mitochondrial DNA B Resour 22-Jul-2019
PMCID:PMC7706882
doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1644216
PMID:33365706
Micropropagation, Micromorphological Studies, and In Vitro Flowering in Rungia pectinata L. Shekhawat MS, Manokari M, Ravindran CP Scientifica (Cairo) 08-May-2016
PMCID:PMC4876001
doi:10.1155/2016/5813851
PMID:27242948
Cercosporoid fungi (Mycosphaerellaceae) 4. Species on dicots (Acanthaceae to Amaranthaceae) Braun U, Crous PW, Nakashima C IMA Fungus 10-Nov-2015
PMCID:PMC4681261
doi:10.5598/imafungus.2015.06.02.09
PMID:26734548
Antiinflammatory, Diuretic and Antimicrobial Activities of Rungia pectinata Linn. and Rungia repens Nees Swain SR, Sinha BN, Murthy PN Indian J Pharm Sci 01-Sep-2008
PMCID:PMC3038304
doi:10.4103/0250-474X.45418
PMID:21394276

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