Ruellia hypericoides

Ruellia hypericoides is a species of flowering plant native to southern Paraguay, southern Brazil, northeastern Argentina, and Uruguay.^[1] This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.

Ruellia hypericoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Acanthaceae
Genus:	Ruellia
Species:	R. hypericoides
Binomial name
Ruellia hypericoides (Nees) Lindau (1894)
Synonyms[1]
Dipteracanthus hypericoides Nees (1847)