Species
B. lophoptera
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. lophoptera
- Author
- Rolfe, Bull. Misc. Inform.
- Publication Date
- 1914
- Place
- Pozuzu
- Habitat
- Forests. San Martin, Moyobamba District, Forget. - Huanuco: Pozuzo, Pearce 556 (type). - Cuzco: near Rio Yanamayo, below ''Pillahuata," 2,000-2,300 meters, Pennell 14069. Marcapata Valley, 1,200 meters, Herrera 1173. Endemic.
- Country
- Peru
- Region
- America
- Section
- Cyathocnemis
- Plant Type
- Shrub-like
- Synonyms and Comments
- Etymology:—The specific epithet is derived from the Greek words lophos (ridge or tuft) and pteron (wing), and refers to the unusual projections found on the largest fruit wing of the species and its closest relatives
- Reference
- Bull. Misc. Inform. :28. 1914.; JGSL9/08; Phytotaxa 381 (1): TWO NEW SPECIES OF BEGONIA FROM ANDEAN PERU
Plant
- Description
- 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 Erect herb, over 3 dm. high. Stems rather stout, pilose. Leaves oblique, very broadly ovate, acute, subtruncate at base, palminerved with very short angular lobes, densely serrate, 6-10 cm. long, 5- 11 cm. wide, lustrous above, pubescent on the nerves beneath, thin, petioles 3- 12 cm. long, villous, stipules narrowly ovate, 15-25 mm. long, denticulate. Peduncles suberect, 6-8 cm. long, hirsute-villous, scarlet, 8- 12-flowered. Bracts elliptic, denticulate. Flowers scarlet or white, hirsute-villous to nearly papillose outside. Staminate tepals 2, spreading, broadly elliptic, obtuse, 10-15 mm. long. Stamens on a globose torus, anthers linear, exceeding the filaments, the connective conspicuously produced. Pistillate tepals 2, broadly ovate, obtuse. Styles 3, deciduous, 2-parted, the stigmatic tissue linear, spiral, continuous, placentae bilamellate. Capsule pendulous, hirsute-tuberculate, unequally 3-winged, the smaller wings triangular, subobtuse, 8 mm. long, the largest wing broadly oblong, 13 mm. long, thickish, its apex truncate, thickened, toothed and pilose.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Etymology:—The specific epithet is derived from the Greek words lophos (ridge or tuft) and pteron (wing), and refers to the unusual projections found on the largest fruit wing of the species and its closest relatives
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
- Endangered Status
- Least Concern