Ruellia elegans

Description

The elegant Ruellie, Ruellia elegans is a species of herbaceous flowering plants of the genus Ruellia the family of Acanthaceae . It is a species native to Brazil. His description in Latin was published by botanist Jean-Louis Marie Poiret for the first time in 1816 in supplement 4 on page 727 of the Encyclopédie méthodique Botanique : Ruellia (formosa) foliis petiolatis, integerrimis, ovatis; utrinque pubescentibus; pedunculis axillaribus, alternis, longissimis, paucifloris; corollis subringentibus . He gives us the following description in French: "This plant is related to Vahl's Rullia macrophylla ; it differs by its leaves and by the shape of the flowers. Its stems are straight, almost woody, a little angular, slightly hairy; the leaves petiolate, opposite, oval, very whole, acuminate or obtuse, a little decurrent on the petioles , rather large, pubescent on both sides; the pedicles alternate, axillary, very long, hairy, supporting two or three flowers united and pedicelled; the hairy calyx ; its very sharp cuts; the corolla of a bright red; the tube elongated, a little curved and compressed; the limb ample, almost in mask or with two lips; theprotruding filaments out of the tube; the sagittate anthers ; style longer than stamens ; the bifid stigma .