Species
B. barbana
See B. strigillosa
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. barbana
- Author
- C. de Candolle Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique
- Publication Date
- 1896
- Habitat
- Stream bank, near La Esmeralda, Volcan de Barba, Tonduz 1333. Slopes of the central mountains, also in the region of Dota, mostly at 1,500-2,000 meters. Endemic.
- Country
- Central America
- Region
- America
- Section
- Gireoudia
- Chr 2n
- 26
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Synonyms and Comments
- B. strigillosa B. A. Dietrich. 1851.
- Reference
- Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 35:261. 1896. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Ann. Missouri Bot, Gard. 45:49. 1958. JGSL9/08
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 Rhizome thick, prostrate and rooting; leaves long-petiolate, the petioles pilose; blades obliquely and broadly ovate, as much as 17 cm. long and 7 cm. wide or even larger, acuminate, obliquely cordate at the base, entire or somewhat serrulate toward the apex, palmately 7-nerved, glabrous above, long pilose beneath on the nerves; scapes somewhat longer than the leaves, the cymes rather broad and many-flowered, the branches glabrous; pistillate flowers with 2 sepals; staminate sepals as much as 6 mm. long; capsule 1.5 cm. long, acute at the base, the wings truncate at the apex, 2 of them subequal and broader than the other one.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
B. strigillosa B. A. Dietrich. 1851.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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