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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Bougainvillea spectabilis - Willd.
Family
Nyctaginaceae
Common Name
Boganbel, Paper flower, Great Bougainvillea
Habit
Shrub
Synonym
Bougainvillea virescens Choisy
Habitat
Ornamental
Color Of Flower
Yellow/white
Key Characters
Branches and leaves pubescent.
Systematic Position
Division :
Dicotyledonae
 
Class :
Monochlamydae
 
Series :
Curvembryae
 
Order :
Plant Description

Woody, scandent or straggling shrub, climbing by the help of axillary thorns; branchlets pubescent; leaves ovate-elliptic or oblong acute, subcordate, entire, acuminate, more or less pubescent on both sides; flowers small, yellow, clustered at the ends of branches; bracts 3, large, showy, obtuse, much exceeding the flower; perianth greenish-yellow, tubular, basal part adnate to bract, limbs-5, fibriate, very small; stamens usually 8, included, filaments unequal; ovary 1-celled, stipitate, style lateral, filiform; anthocarps fusiform, 5-10 ribbed, glabrous or pubescent.

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