Rungia Explained
Rungia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.[1]
Its native range is Tropical Africa (within Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Democratic Republic of the Congo), southern Arabian Peninsula (within Oman and Yemen), Tropical and Subtropical Asia (within the Andaman Islands, Assam, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Java, Laccadive Islands, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam and West Himalaya). The genus name of Rungia is in honour of Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1794–1867), a German analytical chemist.[2] It was first described and published in N.Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. Vol.3 on page 77 in 1832.[1]
Known species
According to Kew:
- Rungia adnata
- Rungia apiculata
- Rungia axilliflora
- Rungia beddomei
- Rungia bisaccata
- Rungia blumeana
- Rungia brandisii
- Rungia burmanica
- Rungia caespitosa
- Rungia camerunensis
- Rungia chamaedryoides
- Rungia chinensis
- Rungia clauda
- Rungia congoensis
- Rungia crenata
- Rungia daklakensis
- Rungia densiflora
- Rungia dimorpha
- Rungia diversibracteata
- Rungia diversiformis
- Rungia eberhardtii
- Rungia elegans
- Rungia eriostachya
- Rungia evrardii
- Rungia flaviflora
- Rungia grandis
- Rungia guangxiensis
- Rungia guineensis
- Rungia heterophylla
- Rungia himalayensis
- Rungia hirpex
- Rungia incompta
- Rungia khasiana
- Rungia khoii
- Rungia klossii
- Rungia laeta
- Rungia latior
- Rungia lepida
- Rungia letestui
- Rungia linifolia
- Rungia longifolia
- Rungia longipes
- Rungia maculata
- Rungia mastersii
- Rungia membranacea
- Rungia mina
- Rungia minutiflora
- Rungia monetaria
- Rungia naoensis
- Rungia napoensis
- Rungia oligoneura
- Rungia paxiana
- Rungia pectinata
- Rungia philippinensis
- Rungia pierrei
- Rungia pinpienensis
- Rungia podostachya
- Rungia punduana
- Rungia pungens
- Rungia purpurascens
- Rungia repens
- Rungia rivicola
- Rungia rungioides
- Rungia salaccensis
- Rungia saranganensis
- Rungia schliebenii
- Rungia selangorensis
- Rungia silvatica
- Rungia sinothailandica
- Rungia sisparensis
- Rungia smeruensis
- Rungia stolonifera
- Rungia subtilifolia
- Rungia sumatrana
- Rungia taiwanensis
- Rungia tenuissima
- Rungia tonkinensis
- Rungia tristichantha
- Rungia vegeta
- Rungia wightiana
- Rungia yunnanensis
Notes and References
- Web site: Rungia Nees Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 20 May 2021 . en.
- Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition . Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2018 . 978-3-946292-26-5 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2018 . 1 January 2021.
