Bougainvillea spectabilis Willd.
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Family: NYCTAGINACEAE
Sub-Family: Not available
English Name: Paper flower
Synonym: Bougainvillea bracteata Pers.
Common Name: Boganvilla
Flowering & Fruiting Period: November - June
Distribution: World wide
Habitat: Grown as ornamental plant
Uses: Ornamental
Key Characteristics: 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.