Ruellia macrantha

Species of flowering plant

Christmas pride

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Lamiales
Family:  | Acanthaceae
Genus:  | Ruellia
Species:  |

R. macrantha

Binomial name
Ruellia macrantha

(Nees) Van Houtte (1878-1879 publ. 1878)

Synonyms[1]

* Bignonia elliptica Thunb. (1821)
* Dipteracanthus macranthus Nees (1847)
* Dipteracanthus speciosus C.Presl (1845)
* Ruellia magnifica Mart. ex Nees (1847), not validly publ.
* Ruellia speciosa Schott ex Nees (1847), not validly publ.

Ruellia macrantha, or Christmas pride, is a species of flowering plant native to the cerrado vegetation of Brazil. It is often used as an ornamental plant. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.

## References

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1. ^ Ruellia macrantha (Nees) Van Houtte. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 10 March 2024.

## External links

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* Photographs of Garden Flowers: Ruellia Macrantha, California Lutheran University, July 13, 2012
* "Ruellia macrantha". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture.
* List of taxa in the Virtual Herbarium Of The New York Botanical Garden: Ruellia macrantha
* (in Portuguese) List of taxa in the Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia: Ruellia macrantha

Taxon identifiers

Ruellia macrantha|

* Wikidata: Q7377841
* Wikispecies: Ruellia macrantha
* CoL: 4TN9Z
* EoL: 6924250
* EPPO: RUEMC
* GBIF: 5573912
* GRIN: 32503
* iNaturalist: 426574
* IPNI: 60454954-2
* NCBI: 440987
* Open Tree of Life: 680286
* PalDat: Ruellia_macrantha
* Plant List: tro-100950
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60454954-2
* RHS: 118855
* Tropicos: 100950
* WFO: wfo-0001044200

Dipteracanthus macranthus|

* Wikidata: Q50840573
* CoL: 36QPC
* GBIF: 3776167
* GRIN: 461908
* IPNI: 47865-1
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:47865-1
* Tropicos: 100445244
* WFO: wfo-0000651179

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