- Family:
- Nyctaginaceae Juss.
Bougainvillea Comm. ex Juss.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology General Habit
- Woody climber, more vigorous shoots with recurved thorns
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate to subopposite, petiolate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence an axillary, pedunculate 3-flowered cyme, each flower subtended by a persistent, often brightly-coloured, ovate bract adnate to the pedicel
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Perianth
- Perianth 5-merous, trumpet-shaped with slightly inflated base, pale yellow
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens c. 8, not exserted
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Anthocarp fusiform, not sticky, remaining attached to the papery bract.
- Distribution
- About 16 species in tropical America, some of which are widely cultivated on account of their very colourful bracts.
Native to:
Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru
Introduced into:
Algeria, Ascension, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Brazil North, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cayman Is., Comoros, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Gambia, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, India, Jamaica, Juan Fernández Is., Leeward Is., Mauritius, Mexico Southeast, Mozambique Channel I, Myanmar, New Zealand North, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Society Is., Southwest Caribbean, Trinidad-Tobago, Tubuai Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Windward Is., Zaïre
- Bougainvillea berberidifolia Heimerl
- Bougainvillea campanulata Heimerl
- Bougainvillea glabra Choisy
- Bougainvillea herzogiana Heimerl
- Bougainvillea infesta Griseb.
- Bougainvillea lehmanniana Heimerl
- Bougainvillea malmeana Heimerl
- Bougainvillea modesta Heimerl
- Bougainvillea pachyphylla Heimerl ex Standl.
- Bougainvillea peruviana Bonpl.
- Bougainvillea pomacea Choisy
- Bougainvillea praecox Griseb.
- Bougainvillea spectabilis Willd.
- Bougainvillea spinosa (Cav.) Heimerl
- Bougainvillea stipitata Griseb.
- Bougainvillea trollii Heimerl
Bougainvillea Comm. ex Juss. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Gen. Pl.: 91 (1789)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
- Holttum, Malaya Agro-Horticultural Assoc. Magazine 12.2: 2–9 (1955).
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