B. gentryi

Culture

Original Botanical Description or Link to

http://www.phytoneuron.net/74PhytoN-Begonia.pdf New Species and notes on Begonia (BEGONIACEAE) from Mexico and Central America, KATHLEEN BURT-UTLEY and JOHN F. UTLEY: “Rhizomatous herbs; internodes very short, to 9 mm, 7–9.5 mm diam, glandular and villoussquamose with trichomes 2–4(–6) mm. Stipules apparently persistent, narrowly triangular, 13–21 x 3–9 mm, marginally entire, villous, strongly keeled, with the keel fimbriate-laciniate; petioles 9–21 cm, villous with stout trichomes 2–5 mm intermixed with minute glandular hairs; leaf blades asymmetric, oblique to transversely elliptic, reniform or ovate, 12–28 x 8.5–19 cm, basally cordate, apically acute to short acuminate, marginally eciliate and somewhat undulate, glabrous to minutely glandular above and glandular to very sparingly villous below, especially on nerves, with trichomes 0.3–2 mm; 10–12-palmatinerved. Inflorescences asymmetrically cymose, greatly exceeding the foliage, ca 14-flowered; peduncles 40–70 cm, sparingly villous with trichomes 1.5–6 mm; bracts caducous, oblong-elliptic, 20 x 11–12 mm, apically truncate, marginally entire. Staminate flowers with pedicels (11–)15–20 mm, glabrous; sepals 2, suborbicular to broadly oblong, 11–14 x 13–14 mm, glabrous, light orange; petals 2, obovate, 10–12 x 7 mm; stamens 25–32; filaments appearing free, less than 0.1 mm; anthers elliptic to obovate, 2–2.2 x 0.4–0.6 mm. Pistillate flowers with pedicels 12–13 mm, glabrous; bracteoles wanting; sepals 2, transversely elliptic, 11–15 x 10–14 mm, glabrous, light orange; petals 2, obovate, 10 x 8 mm; ovary trilocular with bipartite placentae, 6–6.5 mm, glabrous to sparingly glandular; styles 1.7–2 mm, free to the base; stigmas bicornute. Capsules with pedicels 19–27 mm; bodies 9–11 mm; locule chambers externally appearing broadly ovate, 7.5– 8.5 x 6.5–8 mm; wings 3, unequal, the largest wing ovate to elliptic, 19–23 x (9–)13–18 mm, apically rounded to subacute, the other 2 marginiform and triangular to lunate.”