Species
B. villifolia var. villifolia
Photos
2 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. villifolia var. villifolia
- Form Variety
- var. villifolia
- Author
- Irmscher, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh
- Publication Date
- 1951
- Place
- SE Yunnan: Malipo;
- Habitat
- In forests or ravines ca. 1100-1700 m. alt.
- Country
- China; Myanmar; Vietnam
- Region
- Asia
- Section
- Platycentrum
- Chr 2n
- 22
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Synonyms and Comments
- Etymology: Latin villi (long soft hairs) after the hairy leaves; B. villifolia var. australis (not a synonym) "Systematic revision of the indigenous Begonia sect. platycentrum in Vietnam", Nguyen, Hieu Quang 2004
- Reference
- Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 21:43. 1951.—Su Hua Huang, & Yu-Min Shui, Acta Bot. Yunnanica 21(1):17, pl. 5. Figs. 4-5. 1999.— Yu-Min Shui, Ching-I Peng & Cheng-Yih Wu, Bot. Bull. Acad. Sin. 43:321. 2002. — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:202-3. 2007.; JGSL9/08
- Article References
- Hughes M. et al., Asian Begonia 340, 2018; Yu-Min Shui & Wen-Hong Chen, Begonia of China: p97, 2017; NAKATA, M., GUAN, K., LI, J., LU, Y. and LI, H. (2007), Cytotaxonomy of Begonia rubropunctata and B. purpureofolia (Begoniaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 155: 513–517.
- Photo References
- Hughes M. et al., Asian Begonia 340, 2018; Yu-Min Shui & Wen-Hong Chen, Begonia of China: p97, 2017
Plant
- Other Features
- softly hairy species
- Internodal Distance
- elongated
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Etymology: Latin villi (long soft hairs) after the hairy leaves; B. villifolia var. australis (not a synonym) "Systematic revision of the indigenous Begonia sect. platycentrum in Vietnam", Nguyen, Hieu Quang 2004
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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