is a genus of flowering plants native to South America from Brazil west to Peru and south to southernArgentina (Chubut Province). Different authors accept between four and 18 species in the genus. The plant was classified by Europeans inBrazil in 1768, by Philibert Commerçon, a French botanist accompanying French Navy admiral and explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainvilleduring his voyage of circumnavigation. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainvillea)
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