Bald triple flower
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The bald triple flower ( Bougainvillea glabra ) is a climbing shrub from South America. It is often used as an ornamental plant.
description
Bougainvillea glabra forms evergreen, climbing shrubs that can reach heights of up to 10 m as spread climbers. Initially, the plants climb with the help of sprouts; In older plants, the shoots can also loop around each other and thereby gain hold and stability.
The trunks are thick, the branches overhanging, glabrous or sparsely hairy. In the leaf axils 5 to 15 millimeters long, straight thorns are formed. The leaves have a 0.3 to 1 centimeter long stem. The leaf blade is ovate to ovate-lanceolate, pointed or pointed, 5 to 13 centimeters long and 3 to 6 centimeters wide, sparsely hairy on the underside and glabrous on top. The leaf-like bracts are purple to purple in color, elongated or elliptical, pointed, 2.5 to 3.5 inches long and about 2 inches wide. They tower above the flowers. These grow individually, in pairs or in groups of three on approximately 3.5 millimeter long flower stalks. The corolla tube is greenish, clearly angled, about 2 centimeters long, sparsely hairy, ribbed and points away from the flower stalk. The tip is five-fold lobed and forms a short, spread, white or yellowish hem. The six to eight stamens have stamens 8 to 13 millimeters long. The ovary is about 2 millimeters long, the stylus 1 millimeter and the stigma 2.5 millimeters.
The species blooms in its home and southern areas in winter and spring, in the north and in glass houses from March to July. According to other sources, the plants bloom almost all year round in a warm climate. The flowers are pollinated by hummingbirds .
distribution
The natural range is in South America, in Brazil in the states of Bahia , Minas Gerais , Paraná , Pernambuco , Rio de Janeiro , Santa Catarina and São Paulo .
Systematics and Etymology
The bald triplet flower ( Bougainvillea glabra ) is a species from the genus Bougainvillea , which belongs to the family of the wonder flower plants (Nyctaginaceae). It was first described by Jacques Denys Choisy in 1849 . Synonyms of the species are Bougainvillea brachycarpa Heimerl , Bougainvillea rubicunda Schott ex Rohrb. and Bougainvillea spectabilis var. glabra (Choisy) Hook.
The genus name Bougainvillea is reminiscent of the French navigator Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811), who led the expedition in which the first representatives of the genus were described. The specific epithet glabra comes from Latin and means "bald".
use
The species is often used in culture, in areas with frost in glass houses or as a container plant overwintered indoors, otherwise outdoors. It serves as an ornamental plant and also has medicinal value. There are numerous cultivars with differently colored bracts. The similar Bougainvillea spectabilis , which differs from Bougainvillea glabra by the velvety felty underside of the leaves , is also cultivated , but less often .
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literature
- Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China . Volume 5: Ulmaceae through Basellaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2003, ISBN 1-930723-27-X , pp. 431 (English).
- Yasin J. Nasir: Flora of West Pakistan 115: Nyctaginaceae. Stewart Herbarium, Gordon College (et al.), Rawalpindi 1977, p. 13.
- Peter Schönfelder, Ingrid Schönfelder: The Kosmos-Canary Islands flora. Over 1000 species and 60 tropical ornamental trees (= Kosmos nature guide ). 3. Edition. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-440-12607-3 , p. 288, 289 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ German name after Schönfelder: Die Kosmos-Kanarenflora , p. 288.
- ↑ Andreas Bärtels: Color Atlas Mediterranean Plants . Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1997, p. 31. - Christian Grunert: Climbing plants . 2nd Edition. Neumann-Verlag, Radebeul 1966, p. 15. - The information on the maximum growth height fluctuates. For example, only 4 m are given for: Peter and Ingrid Schönfelder: Die Kosmos-Kanarenflora . Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1997, p. 290.
- ^ Wilhelm Lötschert, Gerhard Beese: plants of the tropics . 3. Edition. BLV, Munich 1989, p. 54.
- ^ A b Dequan Lu, Michael G. Gilbert: Bougainvillea glabra , in Flora of China , Volume 5, p. 431.
- ^ Yasin J. Nasir: Bougainvillea glabra in Flora of West Pakistan 115: Nyctaginaceae. P. 13.
- ↑ Schönfelder: Die Kosmos-Kanarenflora , p. 288.
- ↑ Andreas Bärtels: Color Atlas Mediterranean Plants . Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1997, p. 31.
- ↑ Bougainvillea glabra in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
- ↑ Bougainvillea glabra. In: The International Plant Name Index. Retrieved June 7, 2014 .
- ↑ Bougainvillea glabra. In: The Plant List. Retrieved June 7, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Andreas Bärtels: Tropical Plants . Ornamental and useful plants. 5th, revised edition. Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3937-5 , p. 186 .
- ↑ Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 , p. 105 (reprint from 1996).
- ↑ Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 , p. 266 (reprint from 1996).
