Species

B. foliosa var. foliosa

Photos

5 photos

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. foliosa var. foliosa
Form Variety: var. foliosa
Author: Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp.
Publication Date: 1825
Place: Huanuco
Habitat: On rocks in forests. Huanuco: Cuchero, Poeppig, type. Trail along Rio Huallaga, near Riachuela Chontalagua, 815 meters, Mexia 8298. Endemic.
Country: Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador
Region: America
Section: Lepsia
Chr 2n: 60 & 84?
Plant Type: Shrub-like
Synonyms and Comments: B. microphylla herb. Willdenow ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :182. 1855.; B. U135; B. foliosa Poeppig ex A. de Candolle. 1864.; B. elegans Kunth in Humboldt, Bonplannd & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 7:folio 139, quarto 182. 1825. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Caldasia 4:192, pl. 17. 1946. [= B. foliosa Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth var. australis L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert. 1946.] — L. Dorr, Harvard Papers in Botany 4(1):258. 1999.; B. jamesoniana A. de Candolle, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. ser. 4. 11:139. 1859. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Lloydia 13:86. 1950. [ = B. foliosa Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth var. australis L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert. 1946.[ — L. Dorr, Harvard Papers in Botany 4(1):259. 1999.; B. putzeysiana A. de Candolle, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. ser. 4. 11:139. 1859, non Genus Putzeysia Klotzsch. 1855.; B. poeppigiana (Klotzsch) A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):376. 1864.; B. splendens hort. Turicensis ex A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):375. 1864.; B. foliosa Kunth in Humboldt, Bonplannd & Kunth var. australis L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert. 1946.; B. foliosa Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth var. putzeysiana (A. de Candolle) L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert. 1946; B. foliosa Kunth in Humboldt, Bonplannd & Kunth var rotundata L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert. 1946;
Reference: Nov. Gen. Sp.7:folio 140, quarto 183, pl. 642. 1825. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Caldasia 4:191. 1946. — L. Dorr, Harvard Papers in Botany 4(1):258. 1999; JGSL9/08;
Article References: Tebbitt, Begonias 5:128-29. 2005;
Photo References: JBS, Begonias :17. 1980; Murotani, Begonia in Colour :73. 1983; Tebbitt, Begonias pl.86. 2005; Exotica - Pictorial Encyclopedia of Indoor plants; Begonias, Misono 1974: 53 (72); Beg 90 p 143 Jul/Aug 2023; Beg 90 p 143 Jul/Aug 2023;

Plant

Description: "The Fern Leaf Begonia" Description from Smith & Wasshausen "Flora of Ecuador" As B. Poeppigiana in Flora of Peru. by J. Francis Macbride. Chicago, Ill. Field Museum of Natural History, [1941] v.13: pt.4: no.1 (1941): Page 181- 202 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19800 Much-branched shrub or perennial herb, erect, glabrous. Branches slender, spreading. Leaves pinnate-nerved, elliptic, subacute, unequally obtuse at base, 8-18 mm. long, setose-serrate, thin, white-spotted beneath, petioles 1- 2 mm. long, stipules persistent, lanceolate, acuminate, entire except for the setose apex, brown, membranaceous, 2-4 mm. long. Inflorescences axillary, the staminate 2-flowered, the pistillate I-flowered, peduncle very slender, 5-12 mm. long. Bracts minute, persistent. Pedicels 5-9 mm. long. Staminate tepals 4, 4 mm. long, the outer obovate, the inner oblong. Stamens borne on a column, anthers elliptic, the connective produced. Pistillate tepals 5, elliptic, subacute. Styles 3, 2-parted, the stigmatic tissue linear, spiral, continuous, placentae simple. Capsule 6-8 mm. long, the wings unequal, the largest deltoid, acute or obtuse, 7-8 mm. wide. - F.M. Neg. 20823.
Plant Habit: Bushy
Plant Spread: to 1 m
Plant Height: to 1 m
Stem Type: shrub
Stem Habit: Arching, much-branched, the ultimate branches smooth
Other Features: Leaves tardily deciduous
Sun Tolerance: Tolerates full sun (in cooler climates)

Lineage

5 descendants

Parents

No parentage recorded.

B. microphylla herb. Willdenow ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :182. 1855.; B. U135; B. foliosa Poeppig ex A. de Candolle. 1864.; B. elegans Kunth in Humboldt, Bonplannd & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 7:folio 139, quarto 182. 1825. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Caldasia 4:192, pl. 17. 1946. [= B. foliosa Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth var. australis L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert. 1946.] — L. Dorr, Harvard Papers in Botany 4(1):258. 1999.; B. jamesoniana A. de Candolle, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. ser. 4. 11:139. 1859. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Lloydia 13:86. 1950. [ = B. foliosa Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth var. australis L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert. 1946.[ — L. Dorr, Harvard Papers in Botany 4(1):259. 1999.; B. putzeysiana A. de Candolle, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. ser. 4. 11:139. 1859, non Genus Putzeysia Klotzsch. 1855.; B. poeppigiana (Klotzsch) A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):376. 1864.; B. splendens hort. Turicensis ex A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):375. 1864.; B. foliosa Kunth in Humboldt, Bonplannd & Kunth var. australis L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert. 1946.; B. foliosa Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth var. putzeysiana (A. de Candolle) L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert. 1946; B. foliosa Kunth in Humboldt, Bonplannd & Kunth var rotundata L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert. 1946;

Descendants

5 recorded children

As female parent

B. ‘Cräme Mint’

Male parent: B. ‘Opaline’

As male parent

B. ‘Chiquita Blanca’

Female parent: B. schmidtiana

B. ‘Chiquita Rosa’

Female parent: B. schmidtiana

B. ‘Coral West’

Female parent: B. ‘Tanager’

B. ‘Fuchsifoliosa’

Female parent: B. foliosa var. miniata

Culture

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