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A floriferous climber, commonly cultivated as an ornamental in the plains; also grown as dwarf pot plants. Seed formation is rare. Flowers throughout the year.
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 13 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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This species is used as an ornamental and medicinal plant. It is better adapted to areas lacking a distinct dry season and flowers more or less continuously in perpetually humid conditions.
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Flora of China Vol. 5: 431 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Description

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An evergreen climber. 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. Filament 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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Description

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Shrubs vinelike. Stems thick, branches pendent, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; spines axillary, 5-15 mm. Petiole 1 cm; leaf blade ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 5-13 × 3-6 cm, chartaceous, abaxially sparsely pubescent, adaxially glabrous. Foliaceous bracts purple or magenta, oblong or elliptic, 2.5-3.5 × 2 cm, chartaceous. Perianth tube greenish, distinctly angled, ca. 2 cm, sparsely pubescent, ribbed, apex 5-lobed, hairs short, curved away from pedicel. Stamens 6-8. Fl. winter-spring (in south), Mar-Jul. (in north or greenhouse).
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Distribution

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Native of Brazil; widely cultivated in warm countries.
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Distribution

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Distribution: A native of Brazil, widely cultivated in the tropics and subtropics.
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Elevation Range

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1100-1700 m
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Habitat & Distribution

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Widely cultivated. in China, outdoors in frost-free areas, in greenhouses elsewhere [native to South America (Brazil)].
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Synonym

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Bougainvillea spectabilis var. glabra (Choisy) W. J. Hooker.
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Comprehensive Description

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Bougainvillea glabra Choisy, in DC. Prodr. 13 2 : 437. 1849
Bougainvillea spectabilis glabra Hook. Bot. Mag. pi. 4810. 1854.
High-climbing woody vine, much branched, armed with numerous spines, the branches yellowish or reddish-brown, puberulent when young but soon glabrate, the spines 6-12 mm. long, straight or curved; petioles less than one third as long as the blades, slender; leaf-blades broadly ovate to elliptic-oval or ovate-lanceolate, 4-10 cm. long, 2-5.5 cm. wide, rounded to acute at the base, abruptly or gradually acute to long-acuminate at the apex, puberulent when young but soon glabrate; inflorescence 3-flowered, on a peduncle 1-2.5 cm. long; bracts purplishred, rarely whitish, broadly ovate or oval, subcordate at the base, obtuse to abruptly acute or acuminate at the base, sparsely puberulent or glabrous ;~ perianth 1.5-2.5 cm. long, the tube green, densely puberulent or glabrate, the lower part with prominent obtuse angles ; stamens 8 ; fruit turbinate, 7-13 mm. long, 4-5 mm. in diameter, the 5 angles acute.
Type locality: State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Distribution : Brazil ; widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical North America and naturalized in Bermuda and apparently in Cuba, Salvador, and Guatemala.
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Paul Carpenter Standley. 1918. (CHENOPODIALES); ALLIONIACEAE. North American flora. vol 21(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Bougainvillea glabra

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Bougainvillea glabra, the lesser bougainvillea or paperflower,[3] is the most common species of bougainvillea used for bonsai.[4] The epithet 'glabra' comes from Latin and means "bald".[5]

Description

It is an evergreen, climbing shrub with thick, thorny stems and drooping branches that are glabrous or sparsely hairy. The leaves have a 3–10-millimetre-long (1838 in) stem. The leaf blade is ovate to ovate-lanceolate, pointed or briefly pointed, 5 to 13 centimeters long and 3 to 6 centimeters wide, sparsely fluffy hairy on the underside and bald on the top. The leaf-like bracts are purple, oblong or elliptical, pointed, 65–90 mm (2+123+12 in) long and about 50 mm (2 in) wide. They tower over the flowers. These grow individually in pairs or in groups of three on flower stems about 3.5 millimeters long.

The crown tube is greenish, clearly angled, about 2 centimeters long, sparsely downy hairy, ribbed and points away from the flower stalk. The tip is lobed five times and forms a short, spread, white or yellowish hem. The six to eight stamens have 8 to 13 millimeter long stamens. The ovary is about 2 millimeters long, the stylus 1 millimeter and the scar 2.5 millimeters.[6]

It usually grows 3–3.5 m (10–12 ft) tall, occasionally up to 9 m (30 ft). Tiny white flowers usually appear in clusters surrounded by colorful papery bracts, hence the name paperflower. The leaves are dark green, variable in shape, up to 100 mm (4 in) long.[7] The flowers are about 0.4 cm in diameter (the pink petal-like structures are not petals, but bracts.)[8]

Cultivation

B. glabra is heat and drought tolerant and frost sensitive. It is easily propagated by cuttings.[7] It needs full sunlight, warm weather and well drained soil to flower well. The species is often used in culture, in areas with frost in glass houses, otherwise outdoors. The similar Bougainvillea spectabilis, which differs from Bougainvillea glabra by the velvety-felty underside of the leaves, is also cultivated, but less frequently.

Uses

Being of medical importance, the infusion of the plant's tender leaves and bracts is used orally to treat gastrointestinal problems (diarrhoea, stomach pain), and respiratory conditions (asthma, bronchitis, catarrh, chest pain, fever, pneumonia, whooping cough).[9]

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References

  1. ^ "Bougainvillea glabra". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 12 June 2018. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2022.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "Bougainvillea glabra". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 2014-01-30.
  3. ^ Common names for Lesser Bougainvillea (Bougainvillea glabra)—Encyclopedia of Life
  4. ^ "Bougainvillea bonsai" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 9, 2014. (96 Kb)
  5. ^ Yasin J. Nasir: Flora of West Pakistan 115: Nyctaginaceae. Stewart Herbarium, Gordon College (et al.), Rawalpindi 1977, p. 13.
  6. ^ Andreas Bärtels: Tropical plants . Ornamental and useful plants. 5th, revised edition. Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3937-5 , p. 186 .
  7. ^ a b "Bougainvillea glabra - University of Arizona Pima County Cooperative Extension". Archived from the original on 2007-04-28. Retrieved 2007-04-23.
  8. ^ Bougainvillea glabra. "Bougainvillea glabra". Flower View.
  9. ^ Peter Schönfelder, Ingrid Schönfelder: The cosmos-Canary flora. Over 1000 species and 60 tropical ornamental trees (= Kosmos nature guide ). 3. Edition. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-440-12607-3 , pp. 288, 289 .
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Bougainvillea glabra: Brief Summary

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Bougainvillea glabra, the lesser bougainvillea or paperflower, is the most common species of bougainvillea used for bonsai. The epithet 'glabra' comes from Latin and means "bald".

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