- Scientific Name: Bougainvillea spectabilis Willd.
- Ref: Sp. Pl. 2:348. 1799
- English Common Name: great bougainvillea
- Chinese Common Name: 叶子花 yèzi∙huā, 三角花 sānjiǎo∙huā, 毛宝巾 [粤]mou4 bou2 gan1
- Japanese Common Name: イカダカズラ [筏葛] ikadakazura, ココノエカズラ [九重葛] kokonoekazura
- Family: Nyctaginaceae
- Genus: Bougainvillea
- Distribution: native E. & S. Brazil, cultivated. S China
- Photo: 07/25/2012, Mt. Emei, Sichuan
Branches and leaves densely pubescent; spines recurved. Leaves petiolate; leaf blade elliptic or ovate, base rotund. Bracts dark red or light purple-red, elliptic-ovate, 2.5-6.5 × 1.5-4 cm, base rotund to cordate. Perianth tube green, narrowly tubular, rounded, 1.6-2.4 cm, densely pubescent, apex 5-6-lobed, lobes spreading, yellow, 3.5-5 mm, hairs copious, spreading, to 1 mm. Stamens 8. Ovary stipitate. Fruit 1-1.5 cm, densely hairy. Fl. winter-spring. (Flora of China)
