Red ruellia (Ruellia rosea)

Red ruellia (Ruellia rosea) is a plant species in the Acanthaceae, a low shrub with erect stems with sharp linear angles, bright red trumpet flowers, growing wild in sunny areas in forests, riverbanks and farmland.

R. rosea has an erect stem, rectangular or sharp angled, has branches, is green and has white hair. Leaves oblong, pointed tip, green, a large vein in the middle with many pinnate small veins and bright green.

Trumpet-shaped flowers with long aisles, erect, angular, bright red, white hair, five cones. 4-5 pistil stalk with red color and whitish tip.

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Lamiales
Family: Acanthaceae
Genus: Ruellia
Species: Ruellia rosea

Rose taro (Alocasia roseus) from Aceh, Indonesia, similar to Alocasia flemingiana and Alocasia arifolia

NEWS - Rose taro ( Alocasia roseus Asih & Yuzammi, sp. nov.) from Aceh Besar District, Sumatra (Indonesia) was found to produce a striking inflorescence and is morphologically similar to Alocasia flemingiana Yuzammi & A.Hay and Alocasia arifolia Hallier f. Alocasia (Schott) G.Don (Araceae Juss.) consists of 100 species, but recent studies suggest there may be 41 additional undescribed species. The genus is distributed in tropical and subtropical Asia from Malesia to Oceania and mainland Australia. Borneo is considered to have the richest Alocasia diversity and endemism. However, the diversity and distribution of Alocasia is poorly understood in the Indonesian archipelago with about 27 known species. Prior to this study, there were 7 species recognized in Sumatra. Knowledge of Alocasia in Sumatra is inadequate. The last taxonomic revision was conducted over 25 years ago which recognized 6 taxa of Sumatran Alocasia: Alocasia alba Schott, Alocasia arifolia , Alocasia inornata

Namib desert petal-bush (Petalidium namibense), previously confused with P. englerianum, P. rossmannianum and P. variabile

NEWS - Namib desert petal-bush ( Petalidium namibense Swanepoel & A.E.van Wyk, sp. nov.), previously confused with Petalidium englerianum , Petalidium rossmannianum and Petalidium variabile was established as a new species with a restricted range in the southwest, west and northwest of Puros in the Kaokoveld Centre of Endemism, northwestern Namibia. Currently, 41 species of Petalidium Nees von Esenbeck (1832) have been described in Africa. The main centre of diversity for the genus is in northwest Namibia and adjacent southwest Angola. Namibia is home to 31 species, while 13 species have been recorded in Angola, 6 in South Africa, and 33 species have been recorded in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Eswatini and Lesotho. During several expeditions to the Puros region, Wessel Swanepoel discovered an unknown Petalidium characterized by a dwarf shrubby habit, many stems from below or above the ground, white flaking bark (corky on older stems), long dendritic trichomes and flowers i

Enigma needle fly (Leuctra enigma), Golija needle fly (Leuctra golija), Puskás needle fly (Leuctra puskasi) and Visitor needle fly (Leuctra visitor)

NEWS - Enigma needle fly ( Leuctra enigma sp. nov.) from Albania, Golija Mountains needle fly ( Leuctra golija sp. nov.) from Serbia, Gellért Puskás needle fly ( Leuctra puskasi sp. nov.) from Bosnia & Herzegovina and Visitor Mountains needle fly ( Leuctra visitor sp. nov.) from Montenegro are suspected microendemics in the western Balkan mountains. The Balkan Peninsula is one of the hotspots of Western Palaearctic Plecoptera diversity with more than 200 species to date. However, the exploration of the region is far from complete and the knowledge of the fauna in the different countries is rather uneven. Over the last 20 years, researchers have made several collecting trips to all Balkan countries. Some results, mostly descriptions of new species, are published separately but most faunal data and some undescribed and unpublished species. Leuctra enigma Kovács & Murányi, sp. nov. is an animal species in the Leuctridae with macropterous in both sexes. Male tergite VII with l

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