Species

B. plebeja

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. plebeja
Author: Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. For. Kjöbenhavn
Publication Date: 1853
Habitat: Based in part upon material from Cerros de Aguacate, Oersted. Also in Nicaragua. Region of San Ramon; Tacares, 800 meters; reported also from La Verbena and Nicoya.
Country: Mexico, Central America
Region: America
Section: Gireoudia
Chr 2n: 28
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Synonyms and Comments: B. U155; B. leptophylla C. de Candolle, Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2. 8:319. 1908, non Taubert. 1896.; B. fissuarum C. de Candolle. 1919.; B. ripicola C. de Candolle, Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2. 8:314. 1908.; B. tenuipila C. de Candolle, Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2. 8:315. 1908.; B. uvana C. de Candolle, Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 69(12):4. 1919.; B. barsalouxiae Standley & Williams, Ceiba 1:154. 1950.; B. glandulosa auct. non W. J. Hooker: J. D. Smith, Enum. Pl. Guat. 4:182. 1895.; B. plebeja Liebmann var. kennedyi (Houghton) Ziesenhenne. 1959.; B. kennedyi; B. tenuipila C. de Candolle var. kennedyi R. Ziesenhenne, Begonian 44:100. 1977; B. U434;
Reference: Vid. Medd. Naturh. For. Kjöbenhavn 1852:8. 1853.—K. Burt–Utley, Tulane Studies Zool. Bot. 25(1):102. 1985. — Burt-Utley & McVaugh, Fl. Novo-Galiciana 3:682-3. 2001; JGSL9/08;
Photo References: Tebbitt, Begonias pl.40. 2005; The Begonian, Jan 1977; The Begonian, Jan-Feb 1994; Exotica - Pictorial Encyclopedia of Indoor plants;

Plant

Description: 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 with a short, thick, oblique rhizome; leaves long-petiolate, thin when dried, the blades obliquely and broadly ovate, acute or short-acuminate, cordate at the base, irregularly dentate and denticulate, ciliate, sometimes shallowly lo bate, glabrous above, beneath sparsely pilose; scapes equaling or longer than the leaves, at first rufous-pilose, later glabrate, the cymes rather small and few-flowered, the flowers white; sepals 2; capsule glabrous, the largest wing triangular, truncate above, the other 2 much narrower.
Stem Type: Erect

Lineage

7 descendants

Parents

No parentage recorded.

B. U155; B. leptophylla C. de Candolle, Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2. 8:319. 1908, non Taubert. 1896.; B. fissuarum C. de Candolle. 1919.; B. ripicola C. de Candolle, Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2. 8:314. 1908.; B. tenuipila C. de Candolle, Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2. 8:315. 1908.; B. uvana C. de Candolle, Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 69(12):4. 1919.; B. barsalouxiae Standley & Williams, Ceiba 1:154. 1950.; B. glandulosa auct. non W. J. Hooker: J. D. Smith, Enum. Pl. Guat. 4:182. 1895.; B. plebeja Liebmann var. kennedyi (Houghton) Ziesenhenne. 1959.; B. kennedyi; B. tenuipila C. de Candolle var. kennedyi R. Ziesenhenne, Begonian 44:100. 1977; B. U434;