Species
B. comorensis
Photos
2 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. comorensis
- Author
- Warburg in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
- Publication Date
- 1894
- Habitat
- Comoros Islands and Seychelles Islands. Comoros: Grande-Comore, Boivin s.n. May 1850. - Moheli, edge of the aqueduct, Bernardi, 11691 (G, P); Mount Karthala, Bemardi 11713; Moheli, Boivin s.n. (1854) and Miringoni, St. Anthony, about 700 m, Schlieben 11196 (M). - Anjouan, Hildebrandt 1606; woods high, Boivin s.n. May 1850; Boiteau; Washed 9, Maiga, Decary 767; Jard. Bot. Tan. 73, 173; Tinki Mountain, Benson 178 (BM). - Mayotte, M'sapere mountain gorges, Boivin 3308; Drill Maze M'bini, Humblot 1027. Habitat: undergrowth of the rainforest, may also sunny resorts.
- Country
- Comoros
- Region
- Africa
- Section
- Mezierea
- Plant Type
- Shrub-like
- Synonyms and Comments
- seychellensis; u173; salaziensis Warburg var. comorensis (Warburg) L. B. Smith & D. C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:466. 1984 .
- Reference
- Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(6A) :139. 1894, nomen nudum; Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 22:38. 1895. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:466. 1984 [= salaziensis Gaudichaud var. comorensis L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen. 1984.] —M. Keraudren–Aymonin, Fl. Madagascar 144:98, pl. 31. 1983, nomen legitimum. —Kazenga, J.J. deWilde & Quené, Bull. Jard. Bot. Belg. 63:272, fig. 1. 1994.; JGSL9/08
- Article References
- Tebbit, Begonias 5:209-10. 2005.; Flore de Madagascar et des Comores; M. Keraudren-Aymonin & Aymonin G. 1983. — Begoniaceae. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 123 p. vol. 144-145).
Plant
- Description
- Plant with stem glabrous, a little suffrutescentes, up to 1-2 m in height and 5 mm in diameter. Leaves petalled, smooth, glabrous, 5-15 cm long; blade somewhat fleshy on the fresh (collector's notes), obliquely oval, cusp a acute at the top, barely cord at base, membranous on dry, 7-15 x 5-22 cm, glabrous on both sides; edges weakly undulate-dente; teeth very short and very spacious; 7 main veins from the base and 1-2 pairs of very ascending secondary veins, all reddish and finely marked below. Leaves foliaceous, well developed in a very young state, 10-30 mm long, acute at the top, very quickly deciduous, only the base of the median vein sometimes persisting at the insertion of the petiole. Inflorescence axillary, pauciflorous, in bipolar cymes of pink or white flowers, shorter than leaves; MALE flowers usually in the middle of two lateral flowers FEMALE; axis branched 2 to 3 times, shriveled, 6-9 cm long, first branches 2-3 cm long; obovate, very prominent bracts, 5 x 6 mm, deciduous; pedicel grele, 5-7 mm long in MALE flowers, shorter in FEMALE flower. MALE flowers has 2 suborbicular tepals, 12-15 X 9 -10 mm. Stamens numerous, with free threads, 1 mm long; Linear antheres, 2 mm long, with slightly truncated apex. FEMALE flowers have similar perianth. Ovary oblong, wingless, glabrous; styles 3, thick, bifid on half the length; horizontal stigmatized band towards half of the styles, spiral at both ends. Fruit bacciform, oblong-elliptic, glabrous, without wings, scarcely marked by some longitudinal, not very prominent, indehiscent, white, then orange, 1 cm long, 6-7 mm thick. Seeds medium, rather globose, 0.35 x 0.2-0.25 mm; tegument reticule, with rectangular meshes occupying the largest space. - Pl. 31 p. 101.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
seychellensis; u173; salaziensis Warburg var. comorensis (Warburg) L. B. Smith & D. C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:466. 1984 .
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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