Pararuellia delavayana is a plant species in the family Acanthaceae. It is a perennial native to Guizhou, southern Sichuan, and Yunnan provinces of south-central China.
The type specimen of synonym Hemigraphis drymophila was collected by botanist George Forrest in August 1906, from the vicinity of Lijiang, Yunnan, at the forested base of a mountain (8500–10,000 ft elevation).