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| July 2008 at Okinawa |
July 2008 at Okinawa |
July 2008 at Okinawa |
| Family | Acanthaceae |
| Subamily | Acanthoideae |
| Scientific name | Ruellia simplex C. Wright |
| Synonyms | Arrhostoxylum microphyllum Nees von Esenbeck; Cryphiacanthus angustifolius Nees von Esenbeck; Ruellia angustifolia (Nees von Esenbeck) Lindau; Ruellia brittoniana Leonard; Ruellia coerulea Morong; Ruellia ignorantiae Herter; Ruellia microphylla (Nees von Esenbeck) Lindau; Ruellia spectabilis Britton; Ruellia spectabilis (Hooker) G. Nicholson; Ruellia tweediana Grisebach |
| Common name | (Japanese common name) yanagi-ba ruira-sou (ヤナギバルイラソウ, 柳葉ルイラ草 [meaning: willow leaved Ruellia weed]) |
| (English common name) Mexican blue-bells, Spanish-ladies | |
| Distribution | (Japan) Honshu (west of Kanto region), Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa |
| (Other nations) [native] Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina | |
| Habitat | Fields |
| Chromosomal number | 2n=34 |
| Description | Plants electing 30-80cm tall. Leaves ca. 15cm long, ca. 7mm wide. Flowers purple corollas ca. 4-5cm long, flowering in April to October (all seasons in Okinawa). Perennial plants. |
| Reference | Ruellia simplex C. Wright |
| Ruellia tweediana Griseb. | |
| Ruellia simplex, an older and overlooked name for Ruellia tweediana and ruellia coerulea (Acanthaceae) | |
| Foliar fertilizer and method for using the same (US Patent 6475258/2002) | |
| Pharmaceutical preparations of bioactive substances extracted from natural sources (US Patent 6746695/2004) | |
| Product and method for oral administration of nutraceuticals (WIPO Patent WO/2006/063219) | |
| Note | Naturalized plants. |
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July 2008 at Okinawa |
