{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Speciesbox |image = Ruellia puri.jpg |genus = Ruellia |species = jussieuoides |authority = Schltdl. & Cham. (1831) |synonyms = {{collapsible list|bullets=true |title={{small|Synonymy}} |''Arrhostoxylum achimeniflorum'' {{small|Oerst. (1855)}} |''Arrhostoxylum jussieuoides'' {{small|Nees (1847)}} |''Dipteracanthus puri'' {{small|Nees (1847)}} |''Dipteracanthus puri'' subvar. ''ampliflorus'' {{small|Nees (1847)}} |''Dipteracanthus puri'' subvar. ''angustiflorus'' {{small|(Nees) Nees (1847)}} |''Dipteracanthus puri'' var. ''angustifolius'' {{small|Nees (1847)}} |''Dipteracanthus puri'' var. ''gymnocladus'' {{small|Nees (1847)}} |''Ruellia achimeniflorum'' {{small|(Oerst.) Hemsl. (1882)}} |''Ruellia bangii'' {{small|Rusby (1896)}} |''Ruellia lechleri'' {{small|Britton ex Rusby (1900)}} |''Ruellia lechleri var. grandifolia'' {{small|Britton ex Rusby (1900)}} |''Ruellia puri'' {{small|(Nees) B.D.Jacks. (1893)}} |''Ruellia puri var. longipetiolata'' {{small|S.Moore (1895)}} |''Tacoanthus pearcei'' {{small|Baill. (1890)}} }} |synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:54203-1 ''Ruellia jussieuoides'' Schltdl. & Cham.] ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 10 March 2024.</ref> }}
'''''Ruellia jussieuoides''''' is a species of flowering plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is a subshrub of the tropical Americas, native to central and southern Mexico and Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa, Rica, and Panama, and Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and West-Central and southeastern Brazil.<ref name = powo/> It is native to the Cerrado ecoregion of Brazil.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://sciweb.nybg.org/Science2/hcol/lists/acanthaceae.html List of taxa in the Virtual Herbarium Of The New York Botanical Garden: ''Ruellia puri''] * {{in lang|pt}} [http://plantwall.cenargen.embrapa.br/elcen2web/elc2html/elc2bd01a.asp?id=1 List of taxa in the Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia: ''Ruellia puri'']
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jussieuoides
Category:Flora of Bolivia Category:Flora of Southeast Brazil Category:Flora of West-Central Brazil Category:Flora of Costa Rica Category:Flora of Ecuador Category:Flora of Guatemala Category:Flora of Central Mexico Category:Flora of Veracruz Category:Flora of Southeastern Mexico Category:Flora of Southwestern Mexico Category:Flora of Nicaragua Category:Flora of Panama Category:Flora of Peru Category:Plants described in 1831
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