Species
B. acetosella var. acetosella
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. acetosella var. acetosella
- Form Variety
- var. acetosella
- Author
- Craib, Bull. Misc. Inform.
- Publication Date
- 1912
- Place
- SE Xizang, S Yunnan;
- Habitat
- In moist evergreen broad-leaved forests ca. 500-1800 m. alt.
- Country
- China; Tibet; Myanmar; Thailand; Laos; Vietnam; India.
- Region
- Asia
- Section
- Platycentrum
- Chr 2n
- 22
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Synonyms and Comments
- B. tetragona Irmscher, Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 10:515. 1939; B. aptera auct. non Blume: Gagnepain in Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 2:1110. 1921.— R. Kiew, Adansonia ser. 3, 29(2):230. 2007. Section Sphenanthera now included in section Platycentrum; Etymology: little sour begonia
- Reference
- Bull. Misc. Inform. :153. 1912. —Irmscher, Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 6:347. 1927. — M.C. Tebbitt, Brittonia 55(1):22. 2003. — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:161. 2007.;JGSL9/08
- Article References
- Tebbitt, Begonias 5:168-69. 2005; Rekha Morris, Begonian 77:6-9, 27-29. 2010; Asian Begonia p4, 2018 Hughes M. et al; Yu-Min Shui & Wen-Hong Chen, Begonia of China: p54, 2017
- Photo References
- Rekha Morris, Begonian 77:29. 2010; Asian Begonia p4, 2018 Hughes M. et al; Yu-Min Shui & Wen-Hong Chen, Begonia of China: p54-55, 2017
Plant
- Description
- found at elevations of 700 - 1800m. Dioecious
- Plant Height
- Tall 2m
Lineage
2 descendants
Parents
No parentage recorded.
B. tetragona Irmscher, Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 10:515. 1939; B. aptera auct. non Blume: Gagnepain in Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 2:1110. 1921.— R. Kiew, Adansonia ser. 3, 29(2):230. 2007. Section Sphenanthera now included in section Platycentrum; Etymology: little sour begonia
Descendants
2 recorded children
As female parent
2
Male parent: B. ‘Georgia Tasker ’
Male parent: B. handelii var. handelii
As male parent
0
No children recorded with this plant as the male parent.
Culture
- Cultural Requirements
- Cool growing conditions, moist environment
- Comments
- The Indian location advised by Rekha Morris.