B. aguabuenensis

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 short and stout, 0.9–1 cm long, 1.3–1.8 cm diam, squamose with very broad lacerate and laciniate trichomes 3–5 mm. Stipules persistent, reflexed and revolute with age, asymmetrically ovate, 13–23 x 9–13 mm, marginally entire, glabrous, strongly keeled with the keel fimbriate; petioles 8.5–18.5+ cm, glabrous except for a ring of lacerate scales 4–5(–6.5) mm just beneath the petiole-blade junction; leaf blades ovate, 14–21 x 6.5–18 cm, apically attenuateacuminate, basally peltate, marginally ciliate and weakly undulate, but denticulate at ends of major nerves, above glabrous to minutely glandular, below sparingly squamose on major nerves with trichomes 1.5–3 mm, 6–7-peltinerved. Inflorescences exceeding the foliage, asymmetrically cymose, many-flowered; bracts caducous, not seen; peduncles 22–59 cm, glabrous. Staminate flowers with pedicels 10–12 mm, glabrous; sepals obovate, 5.5–6.5 x 3.5–5.5 mm, glabrous, white-pink; petals wanting; stamens 7–11, borne on a raised torus; filaments 0.3–0.6 mm; anthers obovate, 1.1–1.3 x 0.5–0.7 mm. Pistillate flowers with pedicels 6–8 mm, glabrous; bracteoles wanting; sepals 7.5–10 x 5.5–8 mm, glabrous, white-pink; petals wanting; ovaries trilocular with bipartite placentae, 7–8 mm, glabrous; styles 3, 2–2.5 mm; stigmas lunate. Capsules with pedicels 8–11 mm; bodies 11-14 mm, locule chambers externally appearing obovate, 9 x 7 mm; wings subequal, the primary wing asymmetrically lunate-triangular, 5–7 x 9–11 mm; the other wings lunate, 4.5–6 x 8–9 mm.”