Species
B. scabrida
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. scabrida
- Author
- A. de Candolle, Prodr.
- Publication Date
- 1864
- Place
- Fed. Distr., Su
- Country
- Venezuela
- Region
- America
- Section
- Pritzelia
- Chr 2n
- 48
- Plant Type
- Thick Stem
- Reference
- Prodr. 15(1): 367. 1864; JGSL9/08;
- Article References
- Curtis's botanical magazine, v. 120 = ser. 3, v. 50 1894;
- Photo References
- Tebbitt, Begonias pl.71. 2005; The Begonian, Mar 1949; Exotica - Pictorial Encyclopedia of Indoor plants;
Plant
- Description
- Curtis's botanical magazine, v. 120 = ser. 3, v. 50 1894 B. scabrida: A fine bushy Begonia, long cultivated at Kew under the above name, differing somewhat from A. De Candolle’s' description of B. scabrida, in the small size of the petals of the male flowers; and if it is rightly placed in the section to which Klotzsch referred it (Wageneria) in the more important character of the bipartite placentas. But M. de Candolle does not appear to have verified this latter point; all he says is, "it would appear that Klotzsch saw entire placentas, from the fact of his having placed it in this genus Wageneria." Its nearest affinity is with B. dichotoma, Jacq. (Collectanea, p. 250; Icon. Rarior. vol. iii. p. 18, tab. 619), which it very strongly resembles in all respects, but has flowers more than twice as large. B. scabrida, was no doubt received at Kew upon the distribution of the species after its introduction by the collector Moritz, who visited Venezuela about the year 1837. It ~s a noble plant, flowering annually profusely in early spring. Description - A bush five feet high, and as much in diameter; branches stout, cylindric, green, copiously hairy. Leaves a foot and more in diameter, from ovate to orbicular-cordate, acute, very oblique, irregularly toothed, deep green and hairy above, pale beneath and hairy on the nerves only; petiole shorter than the blade, stout, hairy; stipules an inch long, oblong, tip rounded. Cyme a foot broad and more; peduncle long, stout, hairy, green or reddish; branches divaricate, repeatedly divided, glabrous; bracts at the angles very small, slender, spreading, brown. Flowers umbelled in the ultimate branches of the cyme; bracteoles setaceous. Male fl. three-fourths of an inch in diameter; sepals orbicular-ovate, concave; petals not half as large, oblong, obtuse; stamens very many, in a hemispheric head; anthers linear-oblong, obtuse, filaments short. Fem. fl.; sepals 5, about one quarter of an inch long, oblong, obtuse, concave; styles 3, shortly united, bipartite; segments erect, obtuse, straight or slightly twisted, clothed all over with stigmatic hairs. Capsule (young) two-thirds of an inch broad, two wings narrow, the third much longer oblong obtuse, upper margin truncate. - J. D. H.
Lineage
2 descendants
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Descendants
2 recorded children
As female parent
2
Male parent: B. glabra var. glabra
As male parent
0
No children recorded with this plant as the male parent.
Culture
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