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Bougainvillea glabra
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Family:
NYCTAGINACEAE
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Citation: Bougainvillea glabra Choisy in DC., Prodr. 13: 437. 1849; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1164(815). 1925.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Boganvilla, Kadalasupoovu-chedi
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Bougainvillea
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Description:
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.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-June
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as garden plant
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Distribution:
Native of Brazil, widely grown in tropics and subtropics
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White, Red
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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