Bougainvillea

Scientific Name :

Bougainvillea glabra Choisy

Synonym(s) :

Bougainvillea rubicunda Schott ex Rohrb.

Local/Common name(s) :

Bougainvillea

Family :

Nyctaginaceae

Habit :

Shrubs

Flowering/Fruiting Time :

November-June

Habitat :

Grown as garden plant

Endemic :

No

Status (IUCN) :

Least concern (LC)

Distribution :

Native of Brazil, widely grown in tropics and subtropics

Nativity :

Exotic

Uses :

Ornamental

Description (Morphology) :

Scandent shrub. Spiny hooks up to 1 cm long, slightly curved. Leaves 4-10 x 1.7-5 cm, ovate to cordate, upper ovate acuminate, acute or shortly acuminate, sparsely pubescent; petiole 0.3-1 cm long. Bracts 3, 3.5-4 mm long, ovate, acuminate, nerved, magenta coloured. Flowers 3, c. 2 cm long; Sepals 5, acute, c. 2.5 mm long, tip villous, yellow above, lilac beneath, alternating with 5 irregular and adnate yellow lobed appendages. Pedicel subsessile, c. 3.5 mm long, adnate to the bract. Filaments 8-13 mm long, unequal, inserted. Ovary 2 mm long, more or less elongated. Style 1 mm long; stigma 2.5 mm long, plumose.