Browne's blechum

(Ruellia blechum)

galery

Description

Herbs are erect to sloping, reaching up to 0.5 m high; The young quadrangular stems . The leaves ovate to, ovate-lanceolate of 2-6.5 cm long and 1-3 cm wide, apex acute base cuneate to obtuse, margins crenate to integers, sparsely hairy to glabrous; With petioles up to 1.4 cm long, puberum. The inflorescences are terminal, 1.5-7 cm long, with peduncles up to 15 mm long, ovate bracts , 7.5-14 mm long, acute apex, rounded base, laxly strigid and densely puberular, cilia margins, bract-ola lanceolate; Corolla 10-15 mm long, white turning pale pink to lilac with age. The fruits are claviformes.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Lamiales
Family:Acanthaceae
Genus:Ruellia
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