Species
B. hirsutula
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. hirsutula
- Author
- J. D. Hooker in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr.
- Publication Date
- 1871
- Place
- Southern Ghana, south-east Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo and Zaire.
- Habitat
- Terrestrial on level to very steep clayey to sandy soil or on rocks or rock faces or on decaying trees or sometimes on the base of mossy tree trunks;often locally common and as a rule in damp or even occasionally flooded sites along rocky streams and rivers and then usually in the lower parts of the creekbed or on banks along forest tracks; in half-shaded to deeply shaded sites in primary evergreen or rarely semi-deciduous lowland to montane or elfin forest or sometimes in secondary forest; in swamp forest, forest with Scorodophloeus, in hygrophilous coastal evergreen Guineo-Congolian rain forest (foret bia- freenne) or in Cynometra forest; found in association with Begonia mildbraedii, B. erectotricha and B. scutifolia,
- Country
- Ghana to Dem. Rep. Congo
- Region
- Africa
- Section
- Scutobegonia
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Synonyms and Comments
- humilis; klainei Pierre ex Pellegrin, Mem. Soc. Linn. Normandie 26:124. 1924. —M. Sosef, Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 94(1):242. 1994. ; comperei Wilczek, Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 39:92. 1969—M. Sosef, Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 94(1):242. 1994. Fig. 22.8. ; ciliobracteata auct. non Warburg: Midbraed, Wiss. Wiss. Erg. Zweiten Deutschen Zentr. Afr. Exp. 2, Bot.:88. 1922.;— De Wildeman, Ann. Mus. Congo, Sér 5, Bot. 3:451. 1912; — Hutchinson, Dalziel & Keay, Fl. W. Trop. Afr. ed. 2 1(1):218. 1954; — Wilczek, Fl. Congo, Rwanda & Burundi :40. 1969; — J. Doorenbos, Begonian 47:34, 1980; Reitsma, Meded.Landbouwhogesch. Wageningen 83(9):45,47, fig. 10D. 1984; — van den Berg, Agric. Univ. Wageningen Papers 84(3): 38. 1985. —M. Sosef, Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 94(1):242. 1994. ; subfalcata De Wildeman, Ann. Mus. Cong. ser 1, Bot. 5( 2):323. 1905.
- Reference
- Fl. Trop. Afr. 2:575. 1871.—M. Sosef, Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 94(1):242, fig. 17.9, pl. 2a. 1994.; JGSL9/08
- Photo References
- Tebbitt, Begonias pl.159. 2005.
Plant
- Stem Type
- Rhizome rather stout and elongated, rather smooth, 1.2-8.3 mm wide, glabrous except for the sparsely hirsute or puberulous younger parts; the apical part directed upwards to form a short stem of up to 3 cm long.
- Other Features
- Uses: The leaves have a sour taste and are eaten like spinach together with fish and crocodile (Gabon).
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
humilis; klainei Pierre ex Pellegrin, Mem. Soc. Linn. Normandie 26:124. 1924. —M. Sosef, Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 94(1):242. 1994. ; comperei Wilczek, Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 39:92. 1969—M. Sosef, Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 94(1):242. 1994. Fig. 22.8. ; ciliobracteata auct. non Warburg: Midbraed, Wiss. Wiss. Erg. Zweiten Deutschen Zentr. Afr. Exp. 2, Bot.:88. 1922.;— De Wildeman, Ann. Mus. Congo, Sér 5, Bot. 3:451. 1912; — Hutchinson, Dalziel & Keay, Fl. W. Trop. Afr. ed. 2 1(1):218. 1954; — Wilczek, Fl. Congo, Rwanda & Burundi :40. 1969; — J. Doorenbos, Begonian 47:34, 1980; Reitsma, Meded.Landbouwhogesch. Wageningen 83(9):45,47, fig. 10D. 1984; — van den Berg, Agric. Univ. Wageningen Papers 84(3): 38. 1985. —M. Sosef, Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 94(1):242. 1994. ; subfalcata De Wildeman, Ann. Mus. Cong. ser 1, Bot. 5( 2):323. 1905.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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