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The genus Bougainvillea is in the family Nyctaginaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Bougainvillea

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Bougainvillea berberidifolia Heimerl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bougainvillea buttiana Holttum & Standl.	Accepted		TRO
Bougainvillea campanulata Heimerl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bougainvillea glabra Choisy	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bougainvillea herzogiana Heimerl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bougainvillea infesta Griseb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bougainvillea lehmanniana Heimerl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bougainvillea lehmannii Heimerl	Accepted		TRO
Bougainvillea malmeana Heimerl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bougainvillea modesta Heimerl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bougainvillea pachyphylla Heimerl ex Standl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bougainvillea peruviana Bonpl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bougainvillea pomacea Choisy	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bougainvillea praecox Griseb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bougainvillea spectabilis Willd.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bougainvillea spinosa (Cav.) Heimerl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bougainvillea stipitata Griseb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bougainvillea trollii Heimerl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 33 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Bougainvillea. Of these 18 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 22 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Bougainvillea. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 33 species names for the genus Bougainvillea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	18	54.5%
◕	Synonym	11	33.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	4	12.1%

All names

The status of the 55 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Bougainvillea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	18	32.7%
◕	Synonym	33	60.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	4	7.3%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 33 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Bougainvillea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	18	11	0	0	29	87.9%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	4	4	12.1%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Bougainvillea, are as follows: