RUELLIA SIMPLEX, AN OLDER AND OVERLOOKED NAME FOR RUELLIA TWEEDIANA AND RUELLIA COERULEA (ACANTHACEAE)

Authors

  • Cecilia Ezcurra Departamento de Botánica, Centro Regional Universitario Bariloche, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Quintral 1250, 8400 San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro
  • Thomas F. Daniel Department of Botany, California Academy of Sciences, 875 Howard St., San Francisco, CA 94103

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14522/darwiniana.2014.452.92

Keywords:

Acanthaceae, Neotropics, nomenclature, Ruellia

Abstract

Ruellia simplex, the name of a species of Ruellia described from Cuba in 1870, is the oldest name for the neotropical species generally known as Ruellia tweediana, Ruellia coerulea and Ruellia malacosperma. Therefore Ruellia simplex has priority and reduces tha latter names to synonym. This species has an amphitropical distribution in the New World, being found in southern United States, Mexico and the Antilles, and in western Bolivia, southwestern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern
Argentina.

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Published

31-12-2007

How to Cite

Ezcurra, C., & Daniel, T. F. (2007). RUELLIA SIMPLEX, AN OLDER AND OVERLOOKED NAME FOR RUELLIA TWEEDIANA AND RUELLIA COERULEA (ACANTHACEAE). Darwiniana, Nueva Serie, 45(2), 201–203. https://doi.org/10.14522/darwiniana.2014.452.92

Issue

Vol. 45 No. 2 (2007)

Section

Systematics and Taxonomy of Plants

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