Species
B. hirtella var. hirtella
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. hirtella var. hirtella
- Form Variety
- var. hirtella
- Author
- Link, Enum. Hort. Berol.
- Publication Date
- 1822
- Habitat
- Humid forests. San Martin: Tarapoto, Spruce 3982.- Arequipa or Puno: Altos de Toledo, Meyen.
- Country
- West Indies, Colombia to Brazil, Peru
- Region
- America
- Section
- Ephemera
- Chr 2n
- 34?
- Plant Type
- Semperflorens
- Synonyms and Comments
- B. albidosetulosa Hasskarl, Hort. Bogor. Descr. :313. 1858.—Doorenbos, Sosef & de Wilde, Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 98(2):227. 1998.; B. ciliata Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 7:folio 136, quarto 178. 1825.—A. de Candolle in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):344. 1861.; B. villosa Lindley, Edwards's Bot. Reg. 15:pl. 1252. 1829.; B. brasila A. de Candolle, Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 7:295. 1836, non Jard. Geneve 34; in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):344. 1861.; B. brasiliana Schrank ex Steudel, Nom. Bot. ed. 2, 1:193. 1840, nomen nudum.—A. de Candolle,Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 7:295. 1836.; in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):344. 1861.; B. dasypoda Meisner ex A. de Candolle in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):345. 1861, pro syn. B. hirtella Link var. hirtella. 1822.; B. humilis auct. non Dryander: Duss, Fl. Phan. Antil. France 2:321. 1897;
- Reference
- Enum. Hort. Berol. 2:396. 1822.—L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Caldasia 4:82, pl. 8. 1946. —R. Kiew, Begonias of Peninsular Malaysia :289-92, pls. 2005; JGSL9/08;
- Article References
- Tebbitt, Begonias 5:149-51.(key) 2005;
- Photo References
- Tebbitt, Begonias pl.117. 2005; The Begonian, Jan 1941;
Plant
- Description
- A very weedy species, small growing with greenish white flowers and produces a lot of seed. Flora of Peru. by J. Francis Macbride. Chicago, Ill. Field Museum of Natural History, [1941] v.13: pt.4: no.1 (1941): Page 181- 202 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19800 Herb, 2-9 dm. high. Stem branching, villous with brownish hairs 2 mm. long. Leaves strongly asymmetric, transversely ovate, acute, very shallowly cordate at base, 3- 11 cm. long, broad, palmate nerved, shallowly or not lobed, crenate-serrate, sparsely pilose above, petioles 2-7 cm. long, stipules persistent, ovate-oblong, lacerate ciliate. Cymes axillary, usually few-flowered, peduncle 3- 5 cm. long. Bracts persistent, small, lacerate. Pedicels 4-12 mm. long. Staminate tepals 4, the outer 2-4 mm. long, suborbicular, the inner oblong, much smaller. Stamens free, 9-22. Pistillate tepals 5, obovate. Styles 3, 2-parted, the stigmatic tissue linear, spiral, continuous, placentae variable. Capsule 10- 14 mm. long, the wings subdeltoid, unequal, the largest 9-12 mm. wide. - F.M. Neg. 20892.
- Plant Hardiness
- Extremely weedy, declared so in a number of countries. Spread by seed.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
B. albidosetulosa Hasskarl, Hort. Bogor. Descr. :313. 1858.—Doorenbos, Sosef & de Wilde, Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 98(2):227. 1998.; B. ciliata Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 7:folio 136, quarto 178. 1825.—A. de Candolle in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):344. 1861.; B. villosa Lindley, Edwards's Bot. Reg. 15:pl. 1252. 1829.; B. brasila A. de Candolle, Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 7:295. 1836, non Jard. Geneve 34; in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):344. 1861.; B. brasiliana Schrank ex Steudel, Nom. Bot. ed. 2, 1:193. 1840, nomen nudum.—A. de Candolle,Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve 7:295. 1836.; in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):344. 1861.; B. dasypoda Meisner ex A. de Candolle in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):345. 1861, pro syn. B. hirtella Link var. hirtella. 1822.; B. humilis auct. non Dryander: Duss, Fl. Phan. Antil. France 2:321. 1897;
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
- Propagation Method
- Seed