''Rungia'' is a genus of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...
s belonging to the family
Acanthaceae
Acanthaceae is a family (the acanthus family) of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing almost 250 genera and about 2500 species. Most are tropical herbs, shrubs, or twining vines; some are epiphytes. Only a few species are distributed in te ...
.
Its native range is
Tropical Africa
Although tropical Africa is mostly familiar to the West for its rainforests, this biogeographic realm of Africa is far more diverse. While the tropics are thought of as regions with hot moist climates, which are caused by latitude and the tropi ...
(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 Zaïre), southern
Arabian Peninsula
The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Peninsula" or , , "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate ...
(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
Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (8 February 1794 – 25 March 1867) was a German analytical chemist. Runge identified the mydriatic (pupil dilating) effects of belladonna (deadly nightshade) extract, identified caffeine, and discovered the first coal ...
(1794–1867), a German analytical chemist.
It was first described and published in N.Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. Vol.3 on page 77 in 1832.
Known species
According to Kew:
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Rungia adnata''
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Rungia apiculata''
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Rungia axilliflora''
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Rungia beddomei''
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Rungia bisaccata''
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Rungia blumeana''
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Rungia brandisii''
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Rungia burmanica''
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Rungia caespitosa''
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Rungia camerunensis''
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Rungia chamaedryoides''
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Rungia chinensis
''Rungia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.
Its native range is Tropical Africa (within Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, ...
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Rungia clauda''
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Rungia congoensis''
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Rungia crenata''
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Rungia daklakensis''
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Rungia densiflora''
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Rungia dimorpha''
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Rungia diversibracteata''
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Rungia diversiformis
''Rungia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.
Its native range is Tropical Africa (within Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, ...
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Rungia eberhardtii''
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Rungia elegans''
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Rungia eriostachya''
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Rungia evrardii''
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Rungia flaviflora''
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Rungia grandis''
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Rungia guangxiensis''
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Rungia guineensis''
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Rungia heterophylla''
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Rungia himalayensis''
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Rungia hirpex''
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Rungia incompta''
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Rungia khasiana''
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Rungia khoii''
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Rungia klossii
''Rungia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.
Its native range is Tropical Africa (within Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, ...
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Rungia laeta''
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Rungia latior''
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Rungia lepida''
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Rungia letestui''
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Rungia linifolia''
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Rungia longifolia''
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Rungia longipes''
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Rungia maculata
''Rungia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.
Its native range is Tropical Africa (within Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, ...
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Rungia mastersii''
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Rungia membranacea''
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Rungia mina''
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Rungia minutiflora''
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Rungia monetaria''
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Rungia naoensis''
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Rungia napoensis''
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Rungia oligoneura''
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Rungia paxiana''
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Rungia pectinata
''Rungia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.
Its native range is Tropical Africa (within Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, ...
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Rungia philippinensis''
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Rungia pierrei''
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Rungia pinpienensis''
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Rungia podostachya''
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Rungia punduana''
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Rungia pungens''
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Rungia purpurascens''
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Rungia repens''
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Rungia rivicola''
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Rungia rungioides''
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Rungia salaccensis''
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Rungia saranganensis''
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Rungia schliebenii''
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Rungia selangorensis''
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Rungia silvatica''
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Rungia sinothailandica''
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Rungia sisparensis''
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Rungia smeruensis''
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Rungia stolonifera''
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Rungia subtilifolia''
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Rungia sumatrana''
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Rungia taiwanensis''
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Rungia tenuissima''
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Rungia tonkinensis''
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Rungia tristichantha''
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Rungia vegeta''
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Rungia wightiana''
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Rungia yunnanensis''
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q9071247
Acanthaceae
Acanthaceae genera
Plants described in 1832
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Flora of West-Central Tropical Africa
Flora of Ethiopia
Flora of Sudan
Flora of East Tropical Africa
Flora of Angola
Flora of Oman
Flora of Yemen
Flora of South-Central China
Flora of Southeast China
Flora of the Indian subcontinent
Flora of Indo-China
Flora of Malesia
Flora of New Guinea
Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck