Species
B. filipes
See B. hirsuta
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. filipes
- Author
- Bentham, Bot. Voy. Sulph.
- Publication Date
- 1845
- Habitat
- Surubres, near San Mateo, in moist places, 100 meters, Biolley 7047. Moist places of the Pacific tierra caliente; regions of Tilaran and Nicoya. Endemic. Villa Colon, at 840 meters; region of San Ramon, 500- 600 meters; reported from Cerros de Aguacate. Nicaragua to Panama.
- Country
- Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela
- Region
- America
- Section
- ?***not in 2018 revision
- Plant Type
- Shrub-like
- Synonyms and Comments
- hygrophila C. de Candolle, Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 35:265. 1896.; hygrophila C. de Candolle var. puberula C. de Candolle, Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 35:266. 1896.; chepoensis C. de Candolle, Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 69(12):8. 1919.; leptopoda C. de Candolle, Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 69(12):6. 1919. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45:56. 1958.; mameiana C. de Candolle, Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 69(12):4. 1919. —Standley, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 27:277. 1928.; heterodonta Rusby, Descript. New Spec. S. Amer. Pl. :66. 1920. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Caldasia 4:80. 1946.; charadrophila Tutin, J. Bot. 78:251. 1940.; u249. Begonia filipes Benth. The Botany of the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur 101. 1844[1845]; B. hirsuta Aubl. Hist. Pl. Guiane 2:913, pl. 348. 1775
- Reference
- Bot. Voy. Sulph. :101. 1845.—L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Caldasia 4:79, pl. 8. 1946.; JGSL9/08
- Article References
- Tebbitt, Begonias 5:150-51.(key) 2005.
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 Plants erect, glabrous, annual, about 30 cm. high or less; leaves small, short-petiolate, oblong-ovate, acuminate, very oblique at the base and broadly rounded on one side, duplicate serrate; inflorescences small and few-flowered, the flowers greenish white; pistillate flowers 4-lobate; petals none in the staminate flower; capsule 5 mm. long, the largest wing 8 mm. long, the others much reduced. Var. puberula C. DC. (op. cit. 266; Terraba, Tonduz 3910) is a form in which the leaves are sparsely pilosulous on the upper surface. It is questionable whether this species is distinct from B. filipes.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
hygrophila C. de Candolle, Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 35:265. 1896.; hygrophila C. de Candolle var. puberula C. de Candolle, Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 35:266. 1896.; chepoensis C. de Candolle, Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 69(12):8. 1919.; leptopoda C. de Candolle, Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 69(12):6. 1919. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45:56. 1958.; mameiana C. de Candolle, Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 69(12):4. 1919. —Standley, Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. 27:277. 1928.; heterodonta Rusby, Descript. New Spec. S. Amer. Pl. :66. 1920. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Caldasia 4:80. 1946.; charadrophila Tutin, J. Bot. 78:251. 1940.; u249. Begonia filipes Benth. The Botany of the Voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur 101. 1844[1845]; B. hirsuta Aubl. Hist. Pl. Guiane 2:913, pl. 348. 1775
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
- Original Botanical Description or Link to
- 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 Plants slender, erect, annual, the stems glabrous; leaves short-petiolate, palmately nerved, the blades ovate oblong, 2.5- 7 cm. long, long-acuminate, very oblique at the base and produced on one side into a rounded lobe, shallowly lobate and irregularly serrate, sparsely long-villous on the upper surface, glabrous beneath or nearly so; flowers few, small, white, the pistillate 5-lobate; capsules glabrous, 4-6 mm. long, one of the wings 5- 6 mm. long and rounded at the apex, directed upward, the other 2 greatly reduced.