B. multibracteata

Culture

Original Botanical Description or Link to

D. Girmansyah, Bali and Lombok species of Begonia (begoniaceae): 2008 “Stem rhizomatous, rooting at base, green to reddish green, hairy, succulent, unbranched, up to 1 m tall. Stipule broadly triangular, base truncate, margin entire, apex acuminate, persistent, ending with a hair, 25-18 x 8-16 mm. Petiole green to reddish green, hairy, 7-13 cm long. Leaves distant, hairy on both of leaves surface; lamina broadly ovate, strongly asymmetric, basal unequal hearth shape, not overlapping , margin deep scalloped, toothed, each tooth tipped by a hair, apex acuminate 11-17.5 x 8.5-15 cm, broad side 4.5–8.5 cm, basal lobed 10-15 cm long; venation palmate pinnate, 2 pairs at the base, 4-5 pairs along the midrib, 2-3 in basal lobed, branching towards the margin, vein impress above, prominent beneath. Inflorescence axyllary, cymose, erect, hairy, peduncle shorter than petiole c. 6.5 cm long, with two main branches. Bract glabrous, violet, broadly ovate, persistent. Male flowers white, pedicels 2,5-4 cm, tepals 4, margin entire, tip rounded, outer tepals hairy on outside, broadly ovate, 16-17 x 12-13 mm; inner two oval, 14-15 x 7-9 mm; stamen yellow, c. 87, cluster globose 6 mm in across, filament pale yellow, 1-2 mm long, anther yellow, oblong to narrowly obovate, tip notched, opening by slits, 2-2.5 mm long. Female flowers white, pedicels 5-7 mm long, ovary thick and fleshy, 3 angled, 1-13 x 14-20 mm, locule 3, placentas 2 perlocule. Tepals 5, outer one broadly ovate with scattered hairs outside, 18 x 12 mm, inner one smaller, narrowly ovate, glabrous, 18 x 8 mm; style 3, yellowish green, stigmas spiral, Y shaped, 7-8 mm long. Fruit berry, pedicels hairy, 9-15 mm long, globbose, scattered hairs, 3 lobed, each lobed with a fleshy ridge, without wings, locule 3, not splitting, 1.2-1.8 x 1.5-2.3 cm; stigmas persisting. Seed barrel-shaped, c. 0.4 mm long, collar cells halp the seed length.”