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Begonia

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Cucurbitales Family: Begoniaceae Genus: Begonia

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Rather succulent herbs or shrubs, sometimes scandent or epiphytic.

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Leaves: Leaves simple or rarely compound. Alternate and 2-ranked in caulescent species, many-ranked in acaulescent ones. Blades in line with, oblique, or transverse to the petiole. Surfaces variously pubescent, lepidote or glabrous. Margins entire to doubly serrate or lobed. Often membranous, usually palmately veined. Usually petiolate. Stipules minute to large, often persistent.

Flowers: Flowers in dichotomous cymes, sometimes in panicle, with pedicels and bracts. Flowers unisexual (plants monoecious), often somewhat irregular. Each flower subtended by showy, colored bracts. Perianth parts usually distinct, rarely inconsistently connate, staminate flowers usually consisting of 4 parts in 2 opposite pairs, the lower apparently represent the Calyx, the upper representing the corolla, occasionally only 2 parts or more than 4; pistillate flowers usually consisting of a single imbricate series of 5 Perianth parts or sometimes 2–4(6–8). Perianth white, pink, red, orange, or yellow, staminate flowers with 2–4(–8) perianth parts, in 2 series, pistillate flowers with 2–5 perianth parts, in a single series. Stamens numerous; anthers dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits or occasionally by terminal pores, the connective usually protruded above the pollen sacs or sometimes well separating them. Ovary inferior, (2)3(–5)-celled, with as many cells or rarely the placental partitions not complete and thus 1-celled, placentation axile or, when ovary 1-celled, parietal; ovules numerous, anatropous; styles distinct or sometimes connate, usually 2-lobed; stigmas usually twisted.

Fruit: Loculicidal capsules; usually with prominent unequal or equal wings; sometimes fleshy and indehiscent. Seeds numerous and small; endosperm essentially absent; reticulate.

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Accepted Subtaxa (in Hawai'i) (59)

Begonia 'Lucerna'
Begonia aconitifolia A.DC.
Begonia acutifolia Jacq.
Begonia ampla Hook.f.
Begonia aptera Blume
Begonia augustae Irmsch.
Begonia boliviensis A.DC.
Begonia bowerae Ziesenh.
Begonia brevirimosa Irmsch.
Begonia coccinea Hook.
Begonia convolvulacea (Klotzsch) A.DC.
Begonia cucullata Willd.
Begonia dichotoma Jacq.
Begonia dichroa Sprague
Begonia egregia N.E.Br.
Begonia eminii Warb.
Begonia fischeri Schrank
Begonia foliosa Kunth
Begonia fusca Liebm.
Begonia glabra Aubl.
Begonia goegoensis N.E.Br.
Begonia heracleifolia Schltdl. & Cham.
Begonia herbacea Vell.
Begonia hirtella Link
Begonia hydrocotylifolia Otto ex Hook.
Begonia kenworthyae Ziesenh.
Begonia lindleyana Walp.
Begonia listada L.B.Sm. & Wassh.
Begonia ludwigii Irmsch.
Begonia maculata Raddi
Begonia malabarica Lam.
Begonia manicata Brongn. ex J.F.Cels
Begonia masoniana Irmsch. ex Ziesenh.
Begonia minor Jacq.
Begonia nelumbiifolia Schltdl. & Cham.
Begonia obliqua L.
Begonia peltata Otto & A.Dietr.
Begonia popenoei Standl.
Begonia preussii Warb.
Begonia prismatocarpa Hook.
Begonia pustulata Liebm.
Begonia pycnantha Urb. & Ekman
Begonia reniformis Dryand.
Begonia rex Putz.
Begonia rieckei Warb.
Begonia rigida (Klotzsch) Regel ex A.DC.
Begonia salaziensis (Gaudich.) Warb.
Begonia sanguinea Raddi
Begonia serratipetala Irmsch.
Begonia squamulosa Hook.f.
Begonia strigosa (Warb.) L.L.Forrest & Hollingsw.
Begonia teuscheri Linden ex André
Begonia thelmae L.B.Sm. & Wassh.
Begonia thiemei C.DC.
Begonia urophylla Hook.
Begonia withlacoochee 'Brazilian Lady'
Begonia × albopicta W.Bull
Begonia × erythrophylla Hérincq
Begonia × semperflorens-cultorum H.K.Krauss

Uses and Culture

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 1056 (1753)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
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