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Ruellia nudiflora (ruellia; violet wild petunia; wild petunia)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Ruellia nudiflora, the violet wild petunia, is a perennial plant in the acanthus family (Acanthaceae) found in areas of moisture in the Sonoran Desert. Despite its name, it is not a true petunia.
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Infraspecies

Ruellia nudiflora var. grandiflora
Ruellia nudiflora var. insularis
Ruellia nudiflora var. runyonii (Runyon's wild petunia)

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [2]  Shrub

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Carlsbad Caverns National Park II 15448 New Mexico, United States
Palo Verde National Park II 46190 Costa Rica  
Santa Rosa National Park II 95780 Costa Rica

Predators

Anartia jatrophae (white peacock)[3]
Junonia coenia (Buckeye)[4]
Junonia evarete (Buckeye)[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0