Species
B. bowringiana
See B. cathayana
Photos
3 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. bowringiana
- Author
- hort. Sander, Gard. Chron. III
- Publication Date
- 1903
- Country
- China
- Region
- Asia
- Section
- Platycentrum
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Synonyms and Comments
- cathayana Hemsley. 1908.
- Reference
- Gard. Chron. III 33:245, pl.. 1903, non Champion. 1852. —Irmscher, Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 10:524. 1939.; JGSL9/08
- Article References
- Curtis's botanical magazine, v. 86 = ser. 3, v. 16, (1860)
Plant
- Description
- Curtis's botanical magazine, v. 86 = ser. 3, v. 16, (1860) B bowringiana syn Cathyana: The present species of Begonia is very deficient in brightness, as compared with many of the species with richly-colored foliage, which are such favorites with cultivators of stove plants of the present day; and yet it is so nearly allied to a very handsome species, namely the B. laciniata, Roxb. and of this work (Tab. 5021), that I was at first disposed to believe the two were specifically identical. The latter-mentioned Begonia is, however, remarkable for the variegated foliage, both on the upper and under side, the larger white petals, with the outer sepals rufotomentose, the peduncles longer than the leaves, bearing more numerous flowers, and the very hispid fruit. The present is the only species of the genus yet detected in Hongkong, where it was discovered by the late Colonel Champion; and seeds were sent to us by M. Wilford in 1858. Description: Rhizome, thick fleshy; the stem short, nearly as thick as one's finger, flexuose, jointed, tinged with red, slightly woolly, swollen at the joints. Leaves rather large, six to ten inches long, four to six inches broad, very unequally cordate, petiolate, green, and slightly hairy above, dull rufous and somewhat woolly beneath, the pubescence deciduous, the margin very irregularly cut into acute or acuminated lobes, and, besides, unequally serrated: petioles longer than the leaves, terete, thick, woolly, especially on the anterior side below the blade. Stipules large, membranaceous, reddish, cordato-ovate, acuminate. Peduncles much shorter than the petioles, axillary, reddish, woolly, bearing three or four flowers, of which the majority are male. Bracts resembling the stipules. Perianth pale rose color. Male flower large; sepals four, two large and broad, two (opposite ones) oblong and narrow, all spreading and subtomentose at the back. Female flowers smaller than the male: of five, spreading, equal, obovate sepals. Fruit villous, at length glabrous, with two short and one very long, oblong, deflexed, striated wings.
- Plant Habit
- Creeping
- Stem Type
- Rhizome
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
cathayana Hemsley. 1908.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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