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Bougainvillea
spectabilis Willd.
Synonym : Bougainvillea
bracteata Pers.
Family : Nyctaginaceae
Local
Names :
Boganvilla, Paper flower
Flowering and fruiting period: November - June
Distribution: World wide
Habitat: Grown as ornamental plant
IUCN status: Data Deficient
Endemic: No
Uses: ornamental
Key Characters: Bougainvillae are armed,
straggling shrubs. Leaves alternate, ovate-acuminate, entire, lateral nerves
5-6 pairs, glabrous. Flowers in axillary cymes or panicles, in triads, each
flower is subtended by an ovate-acute, petaloid bract. Staminal filaments
usually unequal, inflexed in bud. Ovary 1-celled; style filiform, stigma small;
ovule solitary. Fruit indehiscent, enclosed in the hardened perianth tube.
