Ruellia bahiensis(Moric.) Morong

WFO wfo-0001044145 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, 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.

Ruellia bahiensis, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. a Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / 2017-10-22 / obs. 93035801
Ruellia bahiensis, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. b Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99203519
Ruellia bahiensis, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. c Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92747139
Ruellia bahiensis, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. d Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165005688
Ruellia bahiensis, photographed by Arne Holgersson
fig. e Arne Holgersson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 61771652
Ruellia bahiensis, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. f Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99360435
Ruellia bahiensis, photographed by Helio Lourencini
fig. g Helio Lourencini, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99205088

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
492356
Filed as
Ruellia bahiensis (Nees) Morong
Det. by
D. C. Wasshausen 1996-01-01
Collected
J. R. Pirani 1994-12-05
Origin
BR
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.

Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Ruellia bahiensis is native: Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast Brazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil Southeast
Native distribution of Ruellia bahiensis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Brazil Northeast BZE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 2 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.

  • Dipteracanthus bahiensis Nees
  • Ruellia trivialis Blanch. 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.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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.