Ruellia jussieuoidesSchltdl. & Cham.

WFO wfo-0000401048 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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 jussieuoides, photographed by Suzana Ehlin Martins
fig. a Suzana Ehlin Martins, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2018-03-06 / obs. 14508339
Ruellia jussieuoides, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. b Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103352792
Ruellia jussieuoides, photographed by Jared Shorma
fig. c Jared Shorma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117361757
Ruellia jussieuoides, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. d Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103352803
Ruellia jussieuoides, photographed by Jared Shorma
fig. e Jared Shorma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117361796
Ruellia jussieuoides, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. f Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103352810
Ruellia jussieuoides, photographed by Jared Shorma
fig. g Jared Shorma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117361872
Ruellia jussieuoides, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. h Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103352822

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Ruellia jussieuoides is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Bolivia, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBoliviaBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralCosta RicaEcuadorGuatemalaNicaraguaPanamáPeru
Native distribution of Ruellia jussieuoides, 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
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Guatemala GUA
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 14 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.

  • Arrhostoxylum achimeniflorum Oerst.
  • Arrhostoxylum jussieuoides Nees
  • Dipteracanthus puri Nees
  • Dipteracanthus puri subvar. ampliflorus Nees
  • Dipteracanthus puri subvar. angustiflorus (Nees) Nees
  • Dipteracanthus puri var. angustifolius Nees
  • Dipteracanthus puri var. gymnocladus Nees
  • Ruellia achimeniflorum (Oerst.) Hemsl.
  • Ruellia bangii Rusby
  • Ruellia lechleri Britton ex Rusby
  • Ruellia lechleri var. grandifolia Britton ex Rusby
  • Ruellia puri (Nees) B.D.Jacks.
  • Ruellia puri var. longipetiolata S.Moore
  • Tacoanthus pearcei Baill.

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.