Ruelliopsis

{{Short description|Species of plant}}

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|image = Ruelliopsis setosa 1829.jpg

|image_caption = Ruelliopsis setosa

|genus = Ruelliopsis

|species = setosa

|parent_authority = C.B.Clarke (1899)

|authority = (Nees) C.B.Clarke (1899)

|synonyms_ref = {{cite POWO |id=54744-1 |title=Ruelliopsis setosa (Nees) C.B.Clarke |access-date=1 December 2021}}

|synonyms = {{species list

|Calophanes setosus |Nees (1847)

|Dyschoriste fleckii |Schinz (1915)

|Dyschoriste setosa |(Nees) Kuntze (1891)

|Ruelliopsis damarensis |S.Moore (1907)}}

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Ruelliopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Acanthaceae.{{cite POWO |title=Ruelliopsis C.B.Clarke |id=883-1 |access-date=20 May 2021}} It only contains one known species, Ruelliopsis setosa.

It is native to Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia, and to the Cape Provinces, Free State, and Northern Provinces of South Africa.

The genus name of Ruelliopsis is in honour of Jean Ruel (1474–1537), a French herbalist and physician to Francis I of France and translator of several works of Dioscorides.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 |access-date=1 January 2021}} The Latin specific epithet of setosa means bristly derived from setose.{{cite book | last=Harrison |first=Lorraine | title=RHS Latin for Gardeners | year=2012 |publisher=Mitchell Beazley | location=United Kingdom | isbn=978-1845337315 }}