⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

This name is in version 1.1 of The Plant List, record kew-2680786, and has not been changed.

Bougainvillea spinosa (Cav.) Heimerl is an accepted name

This name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Bougainvillea (family Nyctaginaceae).

The record derives from WCSP (in review) which reports it as an accepted name with original publication details: Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(1b): 27 1889.

Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:35467-2.

Synonyms:

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Bougainvillea patagonica Decne.	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Bougainvillea spinosa var. conferta Chodat	Synonym		WCSP (in review)
Bougainvillea spinosa f. eubracteata Heimerl	Synonym		TRO
Bougainvillea spinosa f. microbracteata Heimerl	Synonym		TRO
Bougainvillea spinosa f. parvifolia Heimerl	Synonym		TRO
Tricycla spinosa Cav.	Synonym		TRO