Taxon: Bougainvillea spectabilis Willd.

Common names:

• great bougainvillea   (Source: UPOV ) – English
  
• ye zi hua   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• buganvilia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• espinho-de-Santa-Rita   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• primavera   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• três-marias   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• stor trillingblomma   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; F ChinaEng)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Brazil: Brazil

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• El-Hadidi, M. N. & M. S. Abdallah. 1980–. Flora of Egypt.
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980-
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Office of the Union. 2009. UPOV: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants. List of the taxa protected by the members of the Union.
• Reitz, R., ed. 1965–. Flora ilustrada catarinense.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Bougainvillea spectabilis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Bougainvillea spectabilis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Bougainvillea spectabilis.

Check other web resources for Bougainvillea spectabilis Willd.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Bougainvillea spectabilis cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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