B. sukutensis

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: “Herbaceous perennials with stout repent rhizomes; internodes 2–3.8 cm long, 7–1.6 cm diam, densely tomentose with whiplash trichomes 2–3 mm. Stipules broadly ovate to ovatetriangular, 18–22 x 14–22+ mm, marginally entire, densely villous or the keel only villous; petioles 25.5–43 cm, minutely glandular and tomentose with whiplash trichomes 1–3 mm; leaf blades oblique, asymmetrically broadly elliptic to oblong or obovate, 24–32 x 18–24 cm, basally cordate with lobes occasionally overlapping, apically acuminate, marginally ciliate, finely denticulate, and occasionally dentate at ends of major nerves; glabrous above except villous above the petiole insertion, villous on nerves below but only sparingly so in intercostal regions; 14–15-palmatinerved. Inflorescences exceeding the foliage, asymmetrically cymose, many-flowered; peduncles 1–1.2 m, sparingly pilose with trichomes 0.3–2 mm and minutely glandular; lowermost floral bracts unknown, but the upper convex, marginally entire and villous medially. Staminate flowers with pedicels 2–4 mm, villous and glandular; sepals 2, transversely elliptic, 2–5 x 3–3.5 mm, glabrous to very sparingly villous and glandular, cystospheres present, white; petals wanting; stamens on a raised torus and occasionally appearing submonadelphous, 64–75; filaments 0.5–0.7 mm, maroon; anthers broadly obovate to oblong, 0.3–0.7 x 0.30.4 mm, connective maroon. Pistillate flowers with pedicels 1–4 mm, villous and glandular; sepals 2, broadly transversely elliptic to obovate or suborbicular, 4–6 x 3.5–6 mm, glabrous to sparingly villous and glandular, white, cystospheres present; petals wanting; ovary 2–3 mm, glabrous, cystospheres abundant; styles 3, 0.5–1.2 mm; stigmas bicornute, appearing maroon when dry. Capsules with pedicels to 2 mm; bodies often beaked, 4.5–5.5 mm; locule chambers externally appearing suborbicular to broadly ovate, 3–3.5 x 3.5–4 mm; wings 3, unequal, the largest wing asymmetrically ovate, 7–10 x 5–5.5 mm; the other two wings marginiform, lunate to lunatetriangular.”