Species
B. cladocarpa
See B. oxyloba
Photos
3 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. cladocarpa
- Author
- Baker, J. Bot. 20:113, 1882
- Publication Date
- 1882
- Habitat
- endemic. East (confines center): Res. nat. III, Zahamena, Andrangavolo Massif, Humbert 17859: Ambodipaisa Forest (West Manakambahina), Course 2263; from Didy to Brickaville, Cours 4736; Ambatoharanana trail at Bemainty massif of Rahobevava, Ivondrona basin, Course 4138; Beforono, Hilsenberg s.n. (BM) · Mount Maromizaha near Analamazaotra, Perrier de la Bathie 15963; Perinet, Robert, Jard. Bot. Tan. 85; south of Moramanga, Decary 18341; Soanierana-Andasibe, Lam & Meeuse 5821 (K); forest of Andasibe on the Onive, Perrier de la Bathie 17218; lvohimanitra forest (Tanala pay), Forsyth Major 11; Ambohimitombo Forest (east of Ambositra) Forsyth Major 11 (BM); valley of SakaJeona. Decary 14314; forest east of Ivohibe, Humbert 3385; Andrambovato, Fianarantsoa province, Bosser 18237; Mount Ankazovandamena, near the Bay of Galions (Ranofotsy) southwest of Fort Dauphin, Humbert & Capuron 29054. San indication of the harvest lees: Baron 9, 287, 3676 (BM). Habitat: epiphyte or epilite in rainforest in very wet places, on rockeries and trunks; alt. 100-1500 m; fl. Oct-March
- Country
- Madagascar
- Region
- Africa
- Section
- Exalabegonia
- Reference
- J. Bot. 20: 11 1882.; Fl. Madagascar 144:97, pl. 30, 1983.
- Article References
- Flore de Madagascar et des Comores; M. Keraudren-Aymonin & Aymonin G. 1983. — Begoniaceae. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 123 p. vol. 144-145).
Plant
- Description
- Sub-shrub up to 0.50 to 1 m tall, with succulent, glabrous green stems. Leaves long petiole small, light green, 10-20 cm long, glabrous: oblique limb, deltoid, rope at base, 8-17 x 10-20 cm, 5-palmatilobe, slash on about half of blade, a acute lobes at the top, with denticles; upper side of the limb, green, shiny, glabrous, or sprinkled with spicules scattered; lower side with veins only herisses of more or less dense hairs: 5 main veins and 5-6 secondary veins of each side, all finely marked on the 2 faces. Large stipules lanceolate, acute at the top, 10-14 x 5-6 mm. Axillary inflorescence in bisexual pauciflorous cymes, common peduncle 15-20 mm long, branched once, usually 2 FEMALE flowers developing in the axil of bracts on each side of a MALE flower, greenish-white flowers. MALE flowers with short pedicel, 12-14 mm, glabrous or with some glandular hairs, enlarged at the top; 2 elongated tepals, 10-12 X 6-7 mm, with some scattered glandular hairs. Stamens 12-20, white fillet, small, 1.5 mm long; greenish yellow anther, 2 mm long. FEMALE flowers with a pedicel 4 mm long, with glandular hairs, accrescent to fruiting; 2 suborbicular to oblong tepals, 9 x 7 mm. Elliptical ovary, with dense glandular hairs; styles 3, sod at the base, longs of I mm, bifid at the top; crooked stigma. Fruit bacciform, pendant, elliptic, broadly elliptical, 15-20 X 5-14 mm, glabrous, wingless, but with finely prominent veins, pedicel 10-20 mm long. Seeds oblong, about 0.45 mm long, with a reticulum often punctuated, with long and narrow rectangular meshes. - Pl. 30, p. 99. this species is close to B. oxyloba Welw. ex Hook. f. tropical and equatorial Africa.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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