Rungia

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, 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. It was first described and published in N.Wallich, Pl. Asiat. Rar. Vol.3 on page 77 in 1832.

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

References

Acanthaceae

Acanthaceae genera

Plants described in 1832

Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck