Species
B. scutulum
Photos
3 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. scutulum
- Author
- J. D. Hooker in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr.
- Publication Date
- 1871
- Place
- Gabon: Crystal Mountains and Chaillu Massif.
- Habitat
- Locally common; terrestrial or rarely on vertical rockfaces; on level sites to steep slopes, generally along creeks or near rapids, also in marshy creekbeds; in shaded to deeply shaded conditions in primary or old secondary rain forest; at 250-700 m altitude.
- Country
- Gabon
- Region
- Africa
- Section
- Scutobegonia
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Synonyms and Comments
- B. hookerana: Gilg ex Engler; B. macropoda
- Reference
- Fl. Trop. Afr. 2:575. 1871.—M. Sosef, Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 94(1):267. Fig. 17.15. 1994.; JGSL9/08
Plant
- Stem Type
- Rhizome rather compact and stout to comparatively slender and far creeping, smooth to somewhat knotted, 1.7-7.8 mm wide, hirsute around the leaf-axils or not; the apical part horizontal or slightly ascending to shortly erect.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
B. hookerana: Gilg ex Engler; B. macropoda
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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