Hygrophila erecta(Burm.f.) Hochr.

WFO wfo-0000726787 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Hygrophila erecta, photographed by Siddarth Machado
fig. a Siddarth Machado, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-02-11 / obs. 42017514

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
02729510
Filed as
Hygrophila erecta (Burm.fil.) Hochr.
Det. by
T. Tran 2016-01-01
Collected
D. T. Hoàn 2016-05-16
Origin
VN
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Calophanes crenatus Schinz
  • Calophanes depressus (L.f.) T.Anderson
  • Dyschoriste cernua Nees
  • Dyschoriste erecta (Burm.f.) Kuntze
  • Dyschoriste mysorensis (Klein ex Schult.) M.R.Almeida
  • Hygrophila phlomoides var. roxburghii C.B.Clarke
  • Justicia meysorensis Klein ex Nees
  • Justicia mysorensis J.G.Klein ex Schult.
  • Ruellia bracteata Willd. ex Nees
  • Ruellia cernua Wall.
  • Ruellia commutata Steud.
  • Ruellia depressa Wall.
  • Ruellia erecta Burm.f.
  • Ruellia neglecta Steud.
  • Ruellia repens Burm.f.
  • Ruellia salicifolia Wall.
  • Ruellia setigera Wight ex Nees

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.