| Ruelliopsis | |
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| Ruelliopsis setosa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Acanthaceae |
| Genus: | Ruelliopsis C.B.Clarke (1899) |
| Species: | R. setosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Ruelliopsis setosa (Nees) C.B.Clarke (1899) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Ruelliopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae. [2] It only contains one known species, Ruelliopsis setosa. [2]
It is native to Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia, and to the Cape Provinces, Free State, and Northern Provinces of South Africa. [2]
The genus name of Ruelliopsis is in honour of Jean Ruel (1474–1537), a French herbalist and physician to Francis I of France and translator of several works of Dioscorides. [3] The Latin specific epithet of setosa means bristly derived from setose. [4]