Species
B. microsperma
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. microsperma
- Author
- Warburg, Bot. Jahrb. Syst.
- Publication Date
- 1895
- Place
- Western Cameroon.
- Habitat
- Clinging to sheer spray-soaked rock faces or epiphytic (on a Ficus) near a waterfall at 100% humidity; in tight groups.
- Country
- Cameroon
- Region
- Africa
- Chr 2n
- 34, 4B?
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Synonyms and Comments
- B. ficicola Irmscher,1954;
- Reference
- Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 22:42. 1895. —M. Sosef, Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 94(1):166. Fig. 16.8. 1994; JGSL9/08;
- Article References
- Tebbitt, Begonias 5:196-97(key). 2005; Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 94-1, p166-9 (1994)
- Photo References
- Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 94-1, p167 (1994); Begonias, Misono 1974: 53 (70);
Plant
- Plant Height
- up to 20 cm high
- Stem Type
- Rhizome rather stout, smooth to somewhat knotted, 1.8-5. mm wide, usually glabrous, sometimes with long hairs around the leaf axils; the apical part not directed upwards or sometimes slightly ascending.
Lineage
3 descendants
Parents
No parentage recorded.
B. ficicola Irmscher,1954;
Descendants
3 recorded children
As female parent
2
Male parent: B. scapigera ssp. scapigera
Male parent: B. crispula
As male parent
1
Female parent: B. prismatocarpa ssp. prismatocarpa
Culture
- Endangered Status
- Vulnerable B2ab(iii)