Ruellia is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as ruellias or wild petunias. They are not closely related to petunias (Petunia) although both genera belong to the same euasterid clade. The genus was named in honor of Jean Ruelle (1474–1537), herbalist and physician to Francis I of France and translator of several works of Dioscorides.
Ruellia acutangula is a plant native to the Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.
Ruellia verbasciformis is a species of flowering plant native to the Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. It is endemic to west-central Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
Ruellia densa is a species of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is a native to the Cerrado region of central Brazil.
Ruellia asperula is a medicinal plant native to eastern Brazil and growing in Caatinga vegetation and Cerrado vegetation. Flowers, leaves, and roots of this plant are usually macerated and used to treat asthma, bronchitis, fever, flu, and uteral inflammation.
Ruellia multifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is a perennial or subshrub native to west-central, southern, and southeastern Brazil, northeastern Argentina, and Paraguay.
Ruellia geminiflora, known locally as ipecacuanha-da-flor-roxa, is a species native to Argentina; Brazil, typically Caatinga and Cerrado vegetation; Guianas, and Venezuela. The roots of this plant contains possibly toxic substances.
Ruellia hapalotricha is a species of flowering plant native to the Cerrado vegetation of Brazil.
Ruellia helianthema is a species of flowering plant native to Bahia state of northeastern Brazil, where it grows in the Cerrado ecoregion.
Ruellia trachyphylla is a plant native to the Cerrado vegetation and it is found in the West-Central of Brazil.
Ruellia menthoides is a species of flowering plant native to northern, eastern, and central Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and Venezuela. In Brazil it grows in the Cerrado ecoregion. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
Ruellia dissitifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is native to the Cerrado ecoregion of Brazil.
Ruellia rasa is a plant native to the Cerrado vegetation of southeastern Brazil.
Ruellia pohlii is a plant native to the Cerrado vegetation of Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
Ruellia nitens is a species of flowering plant native to the Cerrado vegetation of central and northeastern Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
Ruellia jussieuoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is a subshrub of the tropical Americas, native to central and southern Mexico and Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa, Rica, and Panama, and Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and West-Central and southeastern Brazil. It is native to the Cerrado ecoregion of Brazil.
Ruellia rufipila is a species of flowering plant native west-central Brazil, where it grows in the Cerrado ecoregion.
Ruellia macrantha, or Christmas pride, is a species of flowering plant native to the cerrado vegetation of Brazil. It is often used as an ornamental plant. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
Ruellia angustior is a plant native of Cerrado vegetation of western Brazil. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
