{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Ruttya fruticosa.jpg |image_caption = ''Ruttya fruticosa'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Ruttya |authority = Harv. (1842) |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = 6; see text |subdivision_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:887-1 ''Ruttya'' Harv.] ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 7 February 2024.</ref> |synonyms = ''Haplanthera'' {{small|Hochst. (1843)}} |synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo/> }}
'''''Ruttya''''' is a genus of plants in the family Acanthaceae. It includes six species native to eastern and southern Africa, Madagascar, and the southern Arabian Peninsula.<ref name = powo/>
==Species== Six species are accepted.<ref name = powo/> *''Ruttya bernieri'' {{small|Benoist}} – Madagascar *''Ruttya fragrans'' {{small|Benoist}} – Madagascar *''Ruttya fruticosa'' {{small|Lindau}} – northeastern tropical Africa and southern Arabian Peninsula *''Ruttya ovata'' {{small|Harv.}} – Mozambique, Eswatini, and South Africa *''Ruttya speciosa'' {{small|(Hochst.) Engl.}} – northern and northwestern Ethiopia *''Ruttya tricolor'' {{small|Benoist}} – Madagascar
==References== {{Reflist}} * [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html Missouri Botanical Gardens - VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatural database]
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Category:Acanthaceae Category:Acanthaceae genera Category:Flora of the Afrotropical realm Category:Taxa named by William Henry Harvey
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