Species
B. psilophylla
Photos
1 photo
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. psilophylla
- Author
- Irmscher, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh
- Publication Date
- 1951
- Place
- Hekou, Yunnan;
- Habitat
- on rocks in limestone forests or at margins ca. 100-700 m. alt.
- Country
- China
- Region
- Asia
- Section
- Platycentrum
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Synonyms and Comments
- Etymology: Greek psilo (smooth) after the leaves; B.megaptera auct. non A. de Candolle, Te Tsun Yü in Bull. Fan. Mem. Inst. Biol. 1(2):122. 1948.
- Reference
- Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 21:39. 1951.—Su Hua Huang, & Yu-Min Shui, Acta Bot. Yunnanica 21(1):18, pl.7 figs. 5-6. 1999. — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:194. 2007.; JGSL9/08
- Article References
- Hughes M. et al., Asian Begonia 258, 2018; Yu-Min Shui & Wen-Hong Chen, Begonia of China: p116, 2017
- Photo References
- Hughes M. et al., Asian Begonia 258, 2018; Yu-Min Shui & Wen-Hong Chen, Begonia of China: p116-7, 2017
Plant
- Description
- nearly totally glabrous, some minute pubescence of the younger parts of the plant
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Etymology: Greek psilo (smooth) after the leaves; B.megaptera auct. non A. de Candolle, Te Tsun Yü in Bull. Fan. Mem. Inst. Biol. 1(2):122. 1948.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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