Species
B. stenoptera
See B. oaxacana var. stenoptera
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. stenoptera
- Author
- C. DC.
- Publication Date
- 1919
- Place
- Costa Rica
- Habitat
- Santa Elena de Turrialba, Pittier. Also on the slopes of Irazu. Endemic.
- Country
- Costa Rica
- Region
- America
- Section
- Parietoplacentalia
- Reference
- Flora of Costa Rica. Begoniaceae. by Paul C. Standley. Chicago 1937. v. 18: pt. 2 (1937): Page 737-48 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19747
Plant
- Description
- Flora of Costa Rica. Begoniaceae. by Paul C. Standley. Chicago 1937. v. 18: pt. 2 (1937): Page 737-48 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19747 Branches densely pilose; leaves long-petiolate, the petioles densely pilose; blades ovate, 10 cm. long, acuminate, very unequal at the base and rounded on each side, pilose on both surfaces; peduncles shorter than the petioles, the cymes few-flowered, the pedicels pilose; flowers greenish white or pinkish, 5 mm. long; sepals 2 in the staminate flower, glabrous; pistillate flowers 3-lobate; capsule 10 mm. long, the wings subequal, very narrow, pilose on the margins.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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