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Ruellia angustifolia Sw.

Acanthaceae · Jamaica

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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About the genus · Ruellia

Ruellia is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as ruellias or wild petunias. They are not closely related to petunias (Petunia) although both genera belong to the same euasterid clade. The genus was named in honor of Jean Ruelle (1474–1537), herbalist and physician to Francis I of France and translator of several works of Dioscorides.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ruellia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeJamaica · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced record lies inside the stated native range, and all 11 georeferenced records read lie outside it: the range and the records disagree. They are not used, and no map marker or climate is derived from them.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Ruellia 37 in the reference

Ruellia affinis Ruellia affinis Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, B. PhalanRuellia angustiflora Ruellia angustiflora Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, William StephensRuellia blechum Ruellia blechum Browne's blechum Photo: CC BY, Guillaume Delaitre Ruellia blumei Acanthaceae Ruellia bourgaei Ruellia bourgaei Acanthaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedRuellia breedlovei Ruellia breedlovei Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, Neptalí Ramírez MarcialRuellia brevifolia Ruellia brevifolia Tropical wild petunia Photo: CC BY, Zoe Anthony QuestedRuellia californica Ruellia californica Acanthaceae Photo: CC BY, DrepanostomaRuellia caroliniensis Ruellia caroliniensis Carolina wild petunia Photo: CC BY, portulacaRuellia chartacea Ruellia chartacea Peruvian wild petunia Photo: CC BY, Yuri SofronovRuellia ciliatiflora Ruellia ciliatiflora Hairyflower wild petunia Photo: CC BY, Reanne ("Bean") DunnRuellia coccinea Ruellia coccinea Yerba maravilla Photo: CC BY, Cricket Raspet all 38 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Blechum angustifolium. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Acanthaceae
Described by
Sw.
Native to
Jamaica
Wild records
none in range · 11 outside it

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by its label; its IPNI identifier 53788-1 is Kew's for Ruellia angustifolia Sw.
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia redirects Ruellia angustifolia to Ruellia
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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