Species
B. crinita
See B. micranthera var. micranthera
Photos
4 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. crinita
- Author
- Oliver ex J. D. Hooker, Bot. Mag.
- Publication Date
- 1871
- Country
- Bolivia
- Region
- America
- Section
- Australes
- Chr 2n
- 34
- Plant Type
- Shrub-like
- Synonyms and Comments
- B. micranthera subsp. micranthera Tebbitt, 2019
- Reference
- J. D. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 97:pl. 5897. 1871.; JGSL9/08
Plant
- Description
- Begonia crinita, Oliver. Bot. Mag. t. 5897. Hortus Veitchii: London: J. Veitch & sons, 1906. Page 231-34 Item: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/196248 A very elegant plant introduced through Pearce from South America, with a tendency in the branches to develop hairs on that surface only which faces the petiole of the leaf below.; Curtis's botanical magazine; v. 97 = ser. 3: v. 27, 1871 B. crinita: Specimens of this very elegant Begonia were sent by Messrs. Veitch, to the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, in July 1866 and again in 1867, and determined to be new by Professor Oliver, who gave it the above name. It was introduced by Messrs. Veitch's able South American collector, the late Mr. Pearce, from the Bolivian Andes, it is supposed; but as that energetic traveler visited various part of the Cordillera, absolute confidence cannot be placed in the reputed habitat. There is a remarkable tendency in the branches to develop hairs on that surface only which faces the petiole of the leaf inserted below it, the petiole itself being hairy all round. I know of no very close ally of this species, which is not clearly referable to any of A. De Candolle's sections of this extensive and very difficult genus. The specimen here figured is from Mr. Wilson Saunders' s rich collection. Those from Mr. Veitch's nursery were much stouter in the stem, and had deep rose-colored flowers. Description: A foot high, stout or slender, branched, leafy. Stems and branches terete, vivid red, more or less covered with long white, spreading, rather stiff hairs. Leaves two to five inches long, dimidiate, ovate-cordate, very oblique, acuminate, margin lobulate, and acutely toothed, dark green and shortly hairy above, glabrous except on the ribs of the under surface, which is pale green, or faintly purplish; petioles terete, red, and hairy, like the stems. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, recurved, green. Flowers one and a half inches in diameter, dark or pale rose-red, in terminal lax dichotomous cymes, horizontal or nodding, usually in threes, the central longer pedicelled and male. Male flower: perianth 4-leaved; two outer leaves broadly ovate, obtuse; two inner smaller, obovate-oblong. Stamens many, in a globose head, filaments short; anthers short, obovoid, obtuse. Female: flower: --perianth of five obovate oblong-obtuse leaves. Styles three, stigmatic arms short, with a continuous twisted papillose band; ovules very many, on all surfaces of a bipartite placenta. Young fruit 3-gonous, with 2 rounded, and one triangular acute wing. - J. D. H.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
B. micranthera subsp. micranthera Tebbitt, 2019
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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