Asystasia sp

Scientific name: Asystasia sp

Common name: Asystasia

Origin: Unknown

Family: Acanthaceae

Photographs taken at: The Secret Garden of 1-Utama

Asystasia gangetica

Scientific name: Asystasia gangetica ssp. micrantha 

Synonym: Asystasia coromandeliana

Common name:
Chinese Violet, Coromandel, Creeping Foxglove, Ganges Primrose, False Snapdragon

Family: Acanthaceae

Origin: Mafia Island (part of Tanzania's Spice Islands)

Category: Perennial, herbaceous ever-flowering creeper

Photograph taken at the Rooftop Secret Garden of 1-Utama

Asystasia intrusa

Scientific name: Asystasia intrusa
Synonym: Asystasia gangetica subspecies (ssp) micrantha

Common name: Common Asystasia

Chinese name: 赤边樱草 or 十万错花
In mandarin, 赤边樱草 (chi bian ying cao) means 'violet margin cherry (sakura) grass' and
十万错花 (shi wan cuo hua) means 'a hundred thousand wrong flowers'.

Malay name: rumput Pengorak, rumput kambing (goat grass), bunga istana.

Family: Acanthaceae (Ruelia family)
Origin: ??? (unknown to me)
Native to: India, Africa
Category: Ever-flowering perennial creeper

Photo taken: by the roadside