B. pseudopeltata

Culture

Comments

Potentially closely related to B. peltata Otto & Dietrich

Original Botanical Description or Link to

http://www.phytoneuron.net/74PhytoN-Begonia.pdf New Species and notes on Begonia (BEGONIACEAE) from Mexico and Central America, KATHLEEN BURT-UTLEY and JOHN F. UTLEY: “Suffrutescent herbs with branching stems to 1.5 m tall; upper internodes 1–2.9(–5.3) cm, 4– 8 mm diam, sparingly to densely tomentose with uniseriate whiplash trichomes to 4 mm, intermixed with stout multiseriate whiplash trichomes to 8 mm. Stipules persistent, asymmetrically oblong to oblong-ovate, 12–14.5 x 7.5–12 mm, apically obtuse to truncate, marginally entire, glabrous to sparingly tomentose, weakly keeled distally with the keel excurrent apically; petioles (0.6–)2.5–9.5 cm, sparingly to densely tomentose with fine sericeous trichomes to 4 mm; leaf blades oblique, asymmetric, ovate to lance-ovate, 1.8–11.8 x 0.6–8.1 cm, basally peltate, apically acuminate to attenuate-acuminate, marginally ciliate-denticulate to ciliate-crenulate and undulate, occasionally dentate at ends of major nerves; sparingly hirsute above, becoming glabrate, sparingly to moderately tomentose below with trichomes most dense on major nerves; 7–9-peltinerved. Inflorescences shorter than to exceeding the leaves, symmetric to asymmetric, densely cymose, ca 40 or moreflowered; peduncles 3.8–14.3(–22.5) cm, sparingly to moderately tomentose; bracts deciduous, the lowermost oblong, 4–11 x 2–3 mm, apically ciliate-lacerate, marginally distally ciliate-lacerate, hirsute. Staminate flowers with pedicels 6–14 mm; sepals 2, obovate to elliptic, 7–10.5 x 3.5–6.5 mm, glabrous; petals 2, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, (4.5–)7.5–8.5 x 1.6–2.8 mm; stamens 7–13; filaments 0.8–2 mm, borne on a raised torus; anthers oblong to oblong-obovate, 1.1–1.7 x 0.6–0.9 mm. Pistillate flowers with pedicels (4.5–)9–11 mm; bracteoles wanting; sepals 2, obovate, 7–8 x 4– 5.5 mm, glabrous; petals 1, oblanceolate, 5.5–7 x 1.5–2 mm; ovary trilocular with bipartite placentae, 5.5–7.5 mm, glabrous; styles 3, 2–2.5 mm, fused basally; stigmas lunate. Capsules with pedicels 11– 18 mm; bodies 7–9 mm; locules externally appearing broadly elliptic to suborbicular, 4.5–6.5 x 4–7 mm; wings 3, subequal to somewhat unequal, the largest wing weakly asymmetric, broadly triangular to lunate-triangular, 5–6.5 x 5.5–8 mm, the second and third wings shallowly lunate to asymmetrically triangular.”