Species
B. maynensis
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. maynensis
- Author
- A. de Candolle, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. ser. 4.
- Publication Date
- 1859
- Place
- San Martin
- Habitat
- Dense humid forests. Loreto: Maynas, Spruce 4859, type. Soledad, on Rio Itaya, 110 meters, Killip & Smith 29553. Mouth of Rio Santiago above Pongo de Manseriche, 200 meters, Mexia 6130. Hills to left of Rio Maranon above Pongo de Manseriche, 250 meters, Mexia 6348.- San Martin: Zepelacio, near Moyobamba, 1,100 meters, Klug 3716 (sterile, doubtful; leaves variegated); Santiago-Zamora (''Oriente ''): to 0.3 m., flowers white; uplands west of Rio Upano, near Mendez, 1,750-2,500 ft., E-977.
- Country
- Ecuador, Peru
- Region
- America
- Section
- Knesebeckia III
- Plant Type
- Shrub-like
- Synonyms and Comments
- u141; u145; u241; u244; u245; B. longimaculata Irmscher
- Reference
- Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. ser. 4. 11:126. 1859.; JGSL9/08
- Article References
- Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. New York: The Garden,1900- v.8 1952-1954: Page: 36-40 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/150964 PLANTS COLLECTED IN ECUADOR BY W. H. CAMP. – BEGONIACEAE - LYMAN B. SMITH AND BERNICE G. SCHUBERT
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 Herbaceous, 3- 8 dm. high, glabrous. Stem simple, straight, succulent, decumbent and stoloniferous at base. Leaves erect, crowded at top of stem with lower ones deciduous, strongly asymmetric but straight, penninerved, oblanceolate, acuminate, cuneate, 10-28 cm. long, 3-8 cm. wide, serrulate, petioles 16-36 mm. long, stipules subpersistent, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate, entire, 1-2 cm. long, dark brown. Cymes axillary, much exceeded by the leaves, diffuse, few-flowered, peduncles 25-40 mm. long. Bracts persistent, small, narrowly lanceolate. Pedicels 10-25 mm. long. Staminate tepals 4, acute, the outer ovate, 6-7 mm. long, the inner smaller, elliptic. Stamens numerous, subfree, anthers small, broadly obovoid, much shorter than the filaments. Pistillate tepals 5, lanceolate, acute, 4-7 mm. long. Styles 3, 2-parted, the stigmatic tissue linear, spiral, continuous, placentae 2-parted. Capsule 14- 23 mm. long, rounded at base, truncate at apex, wings subequal, rounded or acute, 8- 12 mm. wide. - F.M. Neg. 7345; Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. New York: The Garden, 1900- v. 8 1952-1954: Page: 36-40 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/150964 Santiago-Zamora (''Oriente ''): to 0.3 m., flowers white; uplands west of Rio Upano, near Mendez, 1,750-2,500 ft., E-977.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
u141; u145; u241; u244; u245; B. longimaculata Irmscher
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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