Species
B. falcifolia
Photos
3 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. falcifolia
- Author
- J. D. Hooker, Bot. Mag.
- Publication Date
- 1868
- Country
- Peru
- Region
- America
- Section
- Cyathocnemis
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Reference
- Bot. Mag. 94:pl. 5707. 1868.; JGSL9/08
Plant
- Description
- Bot. Mag. t. 5707. Hortus Veitchii: London: J. Veitch & sons, 1906. Page 231-34 Item: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/196248 This lovely plant, introduced from Peru through Richard Pearce, by whom it was discovered, is a stove species with falcate-lanceolate leaves, of a deep red-purple beneath, deep green-bronze on the upper surface, and with numerous rose-pink flowers, in axillary panicles on the ends of the branches.; Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, v. 94 = ser. 3, v. 24, 1868 B. falcifolia A very lovely species, a native of Peru, from whence it was imported by Messrs. Veitch, being discovered by their collector, Mr. Pearce. For the plant here figured, which has been in flower almost ever since Christmas, the Royal Gardens are indebted to W. Wilson Sanders, Esq., F.R.S. I am at a loss to which of Klotzsch's or A. De Candolle's sections of the genus to refer it, these being none of these with entire placentas, which have but two leaflets of the perianth in both the male and female flower. Description: Stems one to two feet high, glabrous, terete, erect, more or less branched. Leaves petiolate, four to seven inches long, petiole an inch and a half to two inches, falcate-lanceolate, gradually narrowed to the tip, base two-lobed-cordate, the larger lobe produced laterally, irregularly serrate or duplicate dentate-serrate, four or six smaller teeth occurring between the larger, veins very oblique, prominent beneath, under-surface deep red-purple, upper very deep green, often bronzed, covered with short, stiff, scattered, erect hairs, the younger spotted with white. Stipules small, oblong, acute. Panicles short, axillary, hermaphrodite, six- to ten-flowered, much shorter than the leaves, rose-pink; peduncles and pedicels very slender; bracts small, oblong. Perianth of both sexes of two orbicular, glabrous, rose-colored leaflets, half an inch long. Stamens monadelphous at the base, in a unilateral, curved bundle, filaments about as long as the clavate anthers. Ovary oblong, equally three-winged, contracted to a short neck at the apex; styles three, free, except at the base, bifid, the lobes short, with a short, twisted, continuous fascia; placentas quite entire. - J. D. H.
Lineage
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Descendants
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