Species
B. involucrata
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. involucrata
- Author
- Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. For. Kjöbenhavn
- Publication Date
- 1852
- Habitat
- (Central America, Warscewicz). Cerros de Candelaria, Oersted. Common in forests of the central region, at middle or somewhat higher elevations; regions of Dota and San Ramon. Probably endemic.
- Country
- Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico
- Region
- America
- Section
- Gireoudia
- Chr 2n
- 28
- Plant Type
- Thick Stem
- Synonyms and Comments
- B. broussonetiifolia; B. laciniosa A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):340. 1864. —Standley, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Bot. Ser. 18:743. 1937. Gireoudia involucrata Klotzsch, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin 125. 1854. G. laciniata Klotzsch, loc. cit. B. laciniosa A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 15, pt. 1: 340. 1864;
- Reference
- Vid. Medd. Naturh. For. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :15. 1853.— P.D. McMillan, G.Wyatt, & R. Morris, Acta Botanica Mexicana 75:77-99. 2006; JGSL9/08; The Begonian, Feb 1978;
- Article References
- Tebbitt, Begonias 5:159-60. 2005; 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;
- Photo References
- JBS, Begonias :21. 1980; Tebbitt, Begonias pl.38d. 2005; The Begonian, Feb 1978; The Begonian, Jun 1954; The Begonian, Jul 1947; Exotica - Pictorial Encyclopedia of Indoor plants; Begonias, Misono 1974: 69 (98);
Plant
- Description
- A higher elevation species that requires high ambient moisture - Rekha Morris from 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 Plants erect, often somewhat branched and as much as 1.5 meters high, the stems, petioles, and peduncles with a rufous tomentum of long hairs; leaves large, long-petiolate, the blades broadly and obliquely ovate, 9-12-nerved, acute or acuminate, rather shallowly cordate at the base, lobate-dentate or often with 2-3 rather deep lobes, rarely almost entire, more or less pilose but sometimes glabrate on the upper surface; peduncles usually longer than the leaves, the cymes at first often greatly condensed and covered by the large, brown bracts, later often broad and spreading, the pedicels usually glabrous, the flowers white; sepals 2; capsules 7- 10 mm. long, the larger wing elongate, obtuse or acutish, directed upward, the others much reduced.
Lineage
1 descendants
Parents
No parentage recorded.
B. broussonetiifolia; B. laciniosa A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):340. 1864. —Standley, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Bot. Ser. 18:743. 1937. Gireoudia involucrata Klotzsch, Monatsber. Akad. Berlin 125. 1854. G. laciniata Klotzsch, loc. cit. B. laciniosa A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 15, pt. 1: 340. 1864;
Descendants
1 recorded children
As female parent
1
Male parent: B. mazae var. mazae
As male parent
0
No children recorded with this plant as the male parent.
Culture
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