Acanthaceae
Ruellia

Ruellia beniana J.R.I.Wood

First published in Kew Bull. 67: 259 (2012)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Bolivia. It is a subshrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Bolivia

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Kew Bulletin

  • Dubs, B. (1998). Prodromus Florae Matogrossensis. Betrona Verlag, Küsnacht.
  • IUCN (2001). Red List categories and Criteria, Version 3.1. Prepared by the IUCN Species Survival Commission. IUCN, Gland and Cambridge.
  • Mamani, F., Pozo, P., Soto, D., Villarroel, D. & Wood, J. R. I. (ed.) (2010). Libro Rojo de las Plantas de losCerrados del Oriente Boliviano. Museo de Historia Natural ‘Noel Kempff Mercado’, Santa Cruz.
  • McDade, L. A., Daniel, T. F., Kiel, C. A. & Vollesen, K. (2005). Phylogenetic Relationships among Acantheae (Acanthaceae): Major Lineages Present Contrasting Patterns of Molecular Evolution and Morphological Differentiation. Syst. Bot. 30(4): 834 – 862.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Schmidt-Lebuhn, A. & Tripp, E. A. (2009). Ruelliasaccata, a new species of Acanthaceae from Bolivia. Novon 19 (4): 515 – 519.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Wasshausen, D. C. & Wood, J. R. I. (2004). Acanthaceae of Bolivia. Contrib. U.S. Natl. Herb. 49: 1 – 152.
  • Wasshausen, D. C. (1997). New species, new variety and new combinations in Stenandrium (Acanthaceae) from Ecuador and Colombia. Nordic J. Bot. 16 (4): 383 – 388.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Wasshausen, D. C. (1999). Acanthaceae. In: P. M. Jørgensen & S. León-Yánez (eds), Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St Louis.
  • Wood, J. R. I. (2010). Further notes on Bolivian Justicia L. Kew Bull. 65: 77 – 81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  • Wood, J. R. I. (ed.) (2011). Guia Darwin de las Plantas de loscerrados de la Chiquitania. Museo de Historia Natural ‘Noel Kempff Mercado’, Santa Cruz.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Bulletin

    • Kew Bulletin
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0