Plants
Ruellia blechum
EOL Text
Holotype for Ruellia blechum L.
Catalog Number: US 1451437
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): E. C. Leonard & G. M. Leonard
Year Collected: 1929
Locality: Banks of Jeanrabel River near City., Hispaniola Island, Greater Antilles, Haiti, West Indies
- Holotype: Leonard, E. C. 1942. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 32: 184.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 1
Species With Barcodes: 1
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 2
Specimens with Barcodes: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: NNA - Not Applicable
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Rounded Global Status Rank: GNR - Not Yet Ranked
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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.
No available public DNA sequences.
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United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Ruellia parviflora Britton:
United States (North America)
Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.
- Small, J. K. 1933. Man. S.E. Fl. i–xxii, 1–1554. Published by the Author, New York.
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Ruellia blechum L.:
Belize (Mesoamerica)
Bolivia (South America)
Costa Rica (Mesoamerica)
Colombia (South America)
Brazil (South America)
Ecuador (South America)
El Salvador (Mesoamerica)
Honduras (Mesoamerica)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
Nicaragua (Mesoamerica)
Panama (Mesoamerica)
Peru (South America)
Venezuela (South America)
Caribbean (Caribbean)
Guatemala (Mesoamerica)
China (Asia)
Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.
- Forzza, R. C. & et al. 2010. 2010 Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil. http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/.
- Daniel, T. F. 2010. Catalog of Guatemalan Acanthaceae: taxonomy, ecology and conservation. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, 61(4): 291–379.
- Tripp, E. A., T. F. Daniel, J. C. Lendemer & L. A. McDade. 2009. New molecular and morphological insights prompt transfer of Blechum to Ruellia (Acanthaceae). Taxon 58(3): 893–906.
- McDade, L. A. & E. A. Tripp. 2007. A synopsis of Costa Rican Ruellia (Acanthaceae), with descriptions of four new species. Brittonia 59(3): 199–216.
- Flora of China Editorial Committee. 2011. Fl. China 19: 1–884. Science Press & Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing & St. Louis.
- Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., R. D. C. Ortiz, R. Callejas Posada & M. Merello. 2011. Flora de Antioquia. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares, vol. 2. Listado de las Plantas Vasculares del Departamento de Antioquia. Pp. 1-939.
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