B. lempuyangensis

Culture

Original Botanical Description or Link to

D. Girmansyah, Bali and Lombok species of Begonia (begoniaceae): 2008 “Stem brownish green to red, erect, unbranched, glabrous, succulent, arising from a basal rhizome, nodes swollen, up to 50 cm tall, 11–14 mm thick at base, nodes red or reddish green, swollen; without a tuber, internodes short.7-12 cm. Stipules caducous. Leaves distant, alternate; green to brownish green, glabrous, 15 - 21 cm long; thick 6–11 mm; lamina very oblique, glabrous, thinly papery when dried, broadly ovate, asymmetric, 23.5–24 x 13-16 cm, broad side 8.5 - 14 cm wide, base deeply cordate, unequal, basal lobes not overlapping, basal lobe rounded 5-6.5 cm long, margin shallowly to deeply scalloped; venation palmate-pinnate, 2-3 pairs at the base and 2-3 pairs along the midrib with 2 pairs in the basal lobes, bifurcating at 1/3 from the base towards the margin, veins impressed above, beneath prominent, sparsely hairs. Inflorescences axillary, hairy with glandular hairs, erect, shorter than the leaves, peduncle 5-10 cm long, male flowers 12 and female flowers 8, protandrous. Bracts caducous. Male flowers with reddish to reddish white pedicel 2-2.5 cm long; tepals 4, rotund, margin entire, tip rounded, outer two reddish on the dorsal side, 14–17 x 12–14 mm, inner two smaller, white, 13–15 x 9-10 mm; stamens many cluster globose, filament 1–2 mm long, anther yellow, narrowly obovate, tip rounded, opening by slits, 2–3 mm long. Female flowers with reddish white pedicel, 9-1 mm long; ovary pale green with white spot, subglobose, 6-10 x 6-13 mm; wings 3, unequal, larger one with reddish on the margin, locules 3, placenta one per locule; tepals 5, white, broadly elliptic, margin entire, tip rounded, outer three, 9–17 x 7–11 mm, reddish around the middle, inner two glabrous, white, 9-13x6–9 mm, styles 3, styles and stigmas pale yellow and slightly greenish, style with stalk, 2 mm long, style greenish yellow, c. 3 mm long, stigma spiral, greenish yellow, c. 3 mm long. Fruit splash cup pendent on a fine pedicel, 9-11 mm long, berry, globose, c.11 x 17 mm, glabrouse, locules 3, wings 3, unequal, usually one longer than the other two. Seeds brown, broadly ellipsoid, 0.3-0.4 mm long, base truncate, rounded distally, collar cell a half to the seed length.