M. Hedrén (2006) Ruellia in M. Thulin (Ed.) Flora of Somalia 3:392-396

Plants prostrate, ascending, or erect, annual to perennial, herbs, to about 40 cm tall; stems dull, greyish green, usually more or less densely pubescent with hairs about 0.2 mm long and appressed to up to 2 mm long and spreading or sometimes subglabrous, rarely also with long glandular hairs about 0.5 mm long; old persistent stems whitish. Leaves petiolate; petioles up to 2-11 m long; blades lanceolate to broadly ovate, up to 13-35 mm long and 6-20 mm wide, bases shortly attenuate to truncate, tips obtuse to acute. Inflorescences of solitary flowers or occasionally a few together on peduncles about 1 mm long; bracteoles leaf-like, up to 7-14 mm long and 3-10 mm wide on petioles up to 3-8 mm long. Calyx lobes narrowly triangular, often with thin, hyaline margins, 4-8 mm long and 0.8-1 mm wide at flowering, slightly enlarged in fruit, densely pubescent with spreading hairs 0.3-0.5 mm long; corollas usually blue, occasionally white, 16-32 mm long, tubes narrowly funnel-shaped, 10-16 mm, lobes free from each other for 4-8 mm; anthers 1-2.5 mm long, glabrous. Capsules 8-16 mm long, glabrous, with 8-12 seeds.

Ruellia patula grows in open woodland, bushland, or dunes on gypseous, sandy, red or brown soils at 5-1500 m. It is known from all regions in the Flora of Somalia and from other parts of tropical Africa, the Arabian peninsula, Pakistan and India.   

Awale & Jama (2018). Hordhaca dhirta badhtamaha Soomaalilaand.

Geed hoosaad gu’yaal jire ah oo illaa 60 cm ah. Caleemo fudud, isasoo eegaya, oo qaabka ugxanta u samaysan oo leh gas jilicsan. Ubax khafiif iyo soosali rasiina ah, oo qaabka turumbada u samaysan, oo si madi ah u baxay mar kalena si koox ah oo 2-3 xidhmo ah. Midho ku jira dahaadh.

Sabo: Carro dhagax leh, joog ah illaa 1500 m.

Filiqsanaanta: Caadi ka ah Afrika, Carabaha iyo Hindiya.

Global distribution of Ruellia patula from GBIF