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Bougainvillea Comm. ex Juss.

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Bougainvillea Comm. ex Juss., Gen. Pl. 91 (1789)
Bougainvillea Comm. ex Juss.

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
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Juss.
Comm. ex Juss.
1789
91
Buginvillaea
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Bougainvillea Comm. ex Juss.
genus
Bougainvillea

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Bougainvillea

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Bougainvillea Comm. ex Juss.

Climbing or scrambling shrubs, sometimes with axillary stem spines, less commonly arborescent; stems not swollen at nodes. Lvs alternate, petiolate. Fls ☿, rather small, usually in clusters of 3, each subtended by a large variously coloured bract. Pedicels adnate to midrib of bract. Perianth tubular, constricted at c. middle of tube, widened below, 5-ridged; limb short, usually 5-lobed with ridges of tube terminating at the apex of the lobes, cream, yellow or pink, persistent. Stamens (4)-8-(10), unequal, free, or connate at base, not filiform, included. Ovary stipitate; style short; stigma often irregularly lobed. Anthocarp 5-ribbed, not viscid, falling with the attached bract and not invested by it.

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Bougainvillea Comm. ex Juss.
Bougainvillea
Bougainvillea Comm. ex Juss.
Bougainvillea Comm. ex Juss.
Bougainvillea

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Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
Political Region
Recorded at the genus levl; Subtropicals, Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 1,6, p. 8,9

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Bougainvillea Comm. ex Juss.
Cook Islands
Penrhyn

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1 January 2000
18 February 2014
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