“…The rst author cataloged different characteristics like plant growth habits (upright, semi-upright, spreading, drooping, climbing), length of internode (short, medium, long), young shoots (glabrous, tomentose, densely villous), thorn (long, slender, short slender), bract arrangement, bract color, bract size, bract apex, bract tip, bract base, ower size, leaf color, leaf size, leaf lamina, the shape of the leaf apex, petiole length, number of branches, number of leaves, number of thorns, thorn size, stem color, stomata index, moisture content of bracts, ower tube (shape, color, grade of pubescence, lament length, hair, star), the relative position of the stigma and anthers, pollen grain sterility and size, chlorophyll content of leaves, phenolic compounds in leaves and bracts, bract pigment, RAPD etc. for horto-taxonomical characterization of Bougainvillea (Datta 2021a(Datta , 2021b; Chatterjee et al 2007), and Chrysanthemum and rose (Datta 2015; Datta et al 2009).…”