B. liesneri

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: “Suffrutescent herbs to 80 cm tall; upper internodes (1.5–)4–6 cm, 2–4 mm diam, glabrous, cystospheres abundant. Stipules deciduous, asymmetrically ovate to oblong-ovate, 15–18 x 7–8 mm, marginally entire, glabrous, keeled, with only the keel villous; petioles 1.5–3.5 cm, glabrous to very sparingly villous, with the stout villi 0.1–0.7 mm; leaf blades straight to weakly arcuate, asymmetrically narrowly elliptic to ovate, 7–13 x 1.8–4.3 cm, basally unequally sided, apically attenuate-acuminate, marginally ciliate-serrulate and ciliate-serrate, glabrous throughout above, villous beneath only on principal nerves with stout villi to 0.7 mm; (10–)12–15 pinnately nerved on the broad side of the blade. Inflorescences shorter than the leaves, laxly cymose, ca +/- 7-flowered; peduncles 3.5–6.5 cm, glabrous to villous with few villi to 0.7 mm; bracts deciduous, ovate to obovate, 9–12 x 5–7 mm, marginally serrulate, glabrous to sparingly villous, keeled, or the keel only villous. Staminate flowers with pedicels 10–15 mm, sparingly short villous; sepals 2, ovate to oblong or elliptic, 9–16 x 6–9.5 mm, glabrous to glandular and sparingly short villous; petals 2, obovate, 9–13.5 x 4.5–6.5 mm, distally shallowly lobed, glabrous; stamens +/- 23, appearing somewhat monadelphous; filaments 0.8–1.3 mm; anthers narrowly obovate to elliptic, 1.8–2 x 0.5–0.7 mm. Pistillate flowers with pedicels to 15 mm, villous; bracteoles present, deciduous, obovate, 8–9 x 6–7 mm, apically ciliate-laciniate, marginally ciliate-serrulate, sparingly villous; sepals at anthesis unknown; petals/tepals unknown; ovary trilocular with bipartite placentae, 8–10 mm, hirtellous and minutely glandular; styles and stigmas unknown. Capsules with pedicels to 24 mm; bodies 11–14 mm; externally locule chambers elliptic, 8–11 x 6–7 mm; wings subequal to unequal, the largest one asymmetrically triangular, 5–12 x 11–15 mm, the others asymmetrically triangular.”