Species
B. andina
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. andina
- Author
- Rusby, Bull. New York Bot. Gard.
- Publication Date
- 1912
- Place
- Chimborazo
- Habitat
- Santa Barbara, 5500 ft.; Aug. 30, 1902' (No. I566). The same collected by Spruce on Mt. Chimborazo, June, 1860.
- Country
- Bolivia
- Region
- America
- Section
- Hydristyles
- Chr 2n
- 52
- Plant Type
- Shrub-like
- Reference
- Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 8:108. 1912.; JGSL9/08
Plant
- Description
- Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden. Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., v. 8 (1912-1914): Page 108 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/97280 Ferruginous-tomentose; branches reddish, slender, erect; stipules 2-3 mm .. long, red, ovate, attenuate; petioles 2.5-4 cm. long, slender, recurved; blades 5-8 cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. broad, ovate, very inaequilateral, lightly cordate, abruptly very short-acuminate, the margin lightly sinuate, 4-7-nerved, the principal nerve throwing off a pair of strong branches, the venation prominent on both sides, sharply so above; panicles peduncled, widely and loosely branched, broader than long; pedicels (pistillate flower only seen) 5-7 mm. long, slender; flowers 7-9 mm. long; longest perianth segments 6-7 mm. long, the shortest 4-5 mm. long, ovate; fruit 8 mm. long, 16 mm. broad, the largest wing 8 mm .. broad, the opposite one 1.5 mm., strongly reticulate; upper margin of larger wing about on a level with the base of the styles, the lower margin curving about 3 mm. lower than the base of the carpels, its curve sub-regular; fruit crowned with the 3 persistent styles, which are bifid nearly to the base, the divisions bearing 2-5 branches, which are linear and enlarged and papillose at the ends; placentae 4 mm. long, bifid, oblong. Staminate flowers not seen. 'Four feet high, the flowers white; Santa Barbara, 5500 ft.; Aug. 30, 1902' (No. I566). The same collected by Spruce on Mt. Chimborazo, June, 1860.
Lineage
1 descendants
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Descendants
1 recorded children
As female parent
1
Male parent: B. semperflorens
As male parent
0
No children recorded with this plant as the male parent.
Culture
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