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Species

B. cinnabarina

Photos

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Identity

Genus
Begonia
Name
B. cinnabarina
Author
W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag.
Publication Date
1849
Place
Acero, Cordillera
Habitat
Peru: Clarke. Bolivia.
Country
Bolivia, Peru
Region
America
Section
Australes
Chr 2n
26
Plant Type
Tuberous
Synonyms and Comments
aurantiaca hort. ex Planchon, Fl. Serres Jard. Eur. 1. 5:530, pl. 1849.
Reference
Bot. Mag. 75:pl. 4483. 1849.; JGSL9/08;
Article References
Beg. 2:5. Dec. 1935; Tebbitt, Begonias 5:232-. 2005;
Photo References
JBS, Begonias :68. 1980; Tebbitt, Begonias pl.211. 2005; Begonias, Misono 1974: 33 (37); Begonias, Misono 1974: 184 lower right;

Plant

Description
Flora of Peru. by J. Francis Macbride. Chicago, Ill. Field Museum of Natural History, [1941] v. 13: pt. 4: no.1 (1941): Page 181- 202 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19800 Long-caulescent herb with tuberous base, to 6 dm. high. Stem erect, few-branched, flexuous; stout, puberulent. Leaves obliquely ovate or subreniform, palminerved, 1-2 dm. in diameter, obtuse, lobulate, crenate-serrate, pubescent, petioles 8-17 cm. long, stipules ovate, acuminate. Peduncles axillary, stout, 2 dm. long, red or green, 2- 6-flowered. Bracts elliptic, acute, 15-18 mm. long. Pedicels slender, decurved, 1-4 cm. long. Staminate tepals 4, broadly obovate, 25 mm. long. Stamens very numerous, anthers short and broad. Pistillate tepals 5, 25-30 mm. long. Styles 3, 2-parted, the stigmatic tissue linear, spiral, continuous, placentae bilamellate. Capsule very unequally 3-winged, 2 wings narrowly marginiform, the third subdeltoid.
Plant Height
Low

Lineage

18 descendants

Parents

No parentage recorded.

aurantiaca hort. ex Planchon, Fl. Serres Jard. Eur. 1. 5:530, pl. 1849.

Descendants

Culture

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