Species
B. balmisiana var. balmisiana
Photos
4 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. balmisiana var. balmisiana
- Form Variety
- var. balmisiana
- Author
- Balmis, Demostr.
- Publication Date
- 1794
- Place
- Mexico, Michoacan
- Country
- Mexico to Ecuador, West Indies, Guatemala to Peru
- Region
- America
- Section
- Quadriperigonia
- Chr 2n
- 42
- Plant Type
- Tuberous
- Synonyms and Comments
- B. populifolia Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 7:folio 142, quarto 185, pl. 643.1825.; B. monoptera Link & Otto, Icon. Pl. Rar. (3):27, pl. 14. 1828.; B. velutina Brongniart ex Neumann, Rev. Hort. 2 3:218, pl. 1844, nec hort. Vindob ex Klotzsch. 1855, nec Parish ex Kurz. 1873.; B. velutina hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch. 1855, non hort. Vindob ex Klotzsch. 1855.; B. reniformis Pavon ex A. de Candolle. 1864, non Dryander. 1791.; B. balmisiana Balmis var. mitellifolia A de Candolle. 1864.; B. syphillitica Sessé & Mociño, Pl. Nov. Hisp. :162. 1890. “syphilitica”. non visus.
- Reference
- Demostr. :338, pl. 2. 1794.— Burt-Utley & McVaugh, Fl. Novo-Galiciana 3:659-62. 2001.; JGSL9/08
- Article References
- Curtis's botanical magazine, v. 64 = ser. 2, v. 11, 1837; Revue Horticole, Annee 83 (1911)
Plant
- Description
- As B. monoptera in: Curtis's botanical magazine. London; New York [etc.]: Academic Press [etc.] v. 64=ser. 2: v. 11 (1837) [no. 3542-3625]: Plate 3559, 3564, 3591 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/14220 Specific Name and Character. BEGONIA monoptera (The Single Winged Begonia); pubescens, foliis longe petiolatis angulatis crenatis subtus insigniter papillosis sanguineis radicalibus reniformibus vix obliquis, caulinis oblique cuneatis, racemo composito, germinis ala solitaria elongata corniformi. Masc. Calyx o. Corolla polypetala, petalis plerumque 4., 1naequalibus. Faem. Calyx o. Corolla petalis 4-9, plerumque inaequalibus. Styli 3., bifidi. Capsula triquetra, alata, trilocularis, polysperma. This is one of the many species of this handsome Genus, for which our stoves are indebted to Mr. Otto of the Royal Berlin Garden. It was introduced from Brazil to that collection in 1826, by Mr. Deppe. It flowers in July. Description Stem erect, one to two feet high, rounded, geniculated and swollen at the joints, of a dull red color, minutely papillose and downy. Radical leaves on long, red stalk, large, somewhat reniform, truncate at the base, scarcely at all oblique, those of the stem remote, much smaller, on short petioles, roundish, obliquely cuneate, all of them angled and crenate of a dark rather lurid green above, when seen under a microscope obscurely papillose, each papilla terminated by a short soft hair, beneath remarkably papillose, except upon the nerves (Which are radiating); the papillae flattened and somewhat wrinkled at the top, amongst them are a few scattered hairs. Stipules ovate-oblong, entire, green. Raceme terminal, elongated; pedicels one to two inches long, solitary or two or three from the same point, simple or branched. Bracteas two or three, bearing little gemmae as well as the pedicels from their axils. Where the pedicels are solitary, the flower is female; where there are two or three, one is male, the remainder, (one or two.,) female. All have mostly flowers with four white, petaloid, spreading sepals, two opposite ones large and oval, the other two much smaller and oblong, or sometimes five, and sometimes six, unequal sepals. Filaments of the stamens club-shaped, yellow, with a cell under the apex at each side. Germen turbinate, downy, with three angles; one of which is expanded into a horizontal, horn-like wing. Stigmas yellow, hairy.; Revue Horticole, Annee 83 (1911) (translated via Google Translate) B. balmisiana: As can be seen in the figure opposite (Fig. 13), each flower bears, at the point of insertion of its peduncle on the shaft, an agglomeration of small granuliform bulblets, tan in color and the size of a hat pin. These bulbils, which are also found in the axils of the upper leaves, are also observed in another Begonia that we received at the same time from Mexico, B. martiana. There is every reason to think that these bulbils will be able to take root easily and to serve the multiplication of this species, as in B. martiana and its varieties. Carriere has shown the interest of these bulbils in 1879 and 1886 in the case of B. martiana and B. diversifolia, the first of which is only a form. Our plant (Fig. 13) belongs to the variety mitellifolia, DC., Which is distinguished from the type by its whitish tomentose leaves underneath. The Begonia balmisiana, type was discovered in Mexico by Ruiz; Heller collected it at Mount Foluca, and later Humboldt and Bonpland found it in the nearby Pazcuaro forest. The variety mitellifolia, which is the subject of this note, was found successively at 6,500 feet of altitude by Galeotti; near Arumbaro, by Ghiesbreght. Brother Arsene collected it, in 1909, at an altitude of 1900 meters, near Morelia (Loma Santa Maria), from where he sent us bulbs and dry samples. - J. Daveau
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
B. populifolia Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 7:folio 142, quarto 185, pl. 643.1825.; B. monoptera Link & Otto, Icon. Pl. Rar. (3):27, pl. 14. 1828.; B. velutina Brongniart ex Neumann, Rev. Hort. 2 3:218, pl. 1844, nec hort. Vindob ex Klotzsch. 1855, nec Parish ex Kurz. 1873.; B. velutina hort. Berol. ex Klotzsch. 1855, non hort. Vindob ex Klotzsch. 1855.; B. reniformis Pavon ex A. de Candolle. 1864, non Dryander. 1791.; B. balmisiana Balmis var. mitellifolia A de Candolle. 1864.; B. syphillitica Sessé & Mociño, Pl. Nov. Hisp. :162. 1890. “syphilitica”. non visus.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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