Species
B. babeana
Photos
1 photo
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. babeana
- Author
- Aver. & H.Q.Nguyen, Turczaninowia
- Publication Date
- 2012
- Date of Origin
- 2009
- Place
- Bac Kan prov., Ba Be national park
- Habitat
- Lowland limestone areas in centre of northern Vietnam in Bac Kan province (Ba Be district). Local endemic in primary and secondary dry broadleaved evergreen forests on remnant hills composed with solid marble-like highly eroded rocky crystalline limestone at elevations 200-300 m a.s.l. Lithophytic herb growing in humid crevices of vertical shady limestone cliffs.
- Country
- Vietnam
- Region
- Asia
- Section
- Coelocentrum
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Reference
- Turczaninowia 15(2): 7. 2012
Plant
- Description
- Monoecious; Lithophytic, evergreen, stemless, regularly monoecious herb with thick, creeping, plagiotropic rhizome. The new species is closely related to B. semiparietalis Yan Liu, S.M. Ku et C.-I Peng described from south-west Guangxi (Ku et al., 2006), but clearly distinct in its smaller plant size (particularly leaves), in brown, brownish-red to brownish grey indumentum (not white), in rugose, glossy, uniform dark green, irregularly bullate adaxial surface of leaf blade with prominent grooved veins and in glabrous sepals and ovary (not long setulose-pilose).
- Growth Type
- Lithophyte, thick creeping plagiotropic rhizome
- Stem Type
- Stemless
- Internodal Distance
- Rhizome greenish to brown, (4)5–10(15) cm long, (3)4–5(7) mm in diam., sparsely hairy, with fibrose roots faced to the ground.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
- Comments
- Species name refers name of national park where plant was discovered (Ba Be national park, Bac Kan province of northern Vietnam).
- Original Botanical Description or Link to
- http://www.botanyvn.com/cnt.asp?param=news&newsid=1495&lg=en