Ruelliopsis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Acanthaceae |
Genus: | Ruelliopsis (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(Nees) C.B.Clarke [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] Both the genus and the species were first described and published in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. Vol.5 on page 59 in 1899. [2]
Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie was a French botanist who specialized in the plants of Madagascar.
Julian Alfred Steyermark was a Venezuelan American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae.
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