Species
B. glandulifera
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. glandulifera
- Author
- Grisebach, Fl. Brit. W. I.
- Publication Date
- 1860
- Place
- Sucre
- Country
- Trinidad, Venezuela
- Region
- America
- Section
- Pilderia
- Plant Type
- Shrub-like
- Reference
- Fl. Brit. W. I. :304. 1860. [Begonia ?] —J.D. Hooker, Bot. Mag. 94:pl. 5695. 1868.; JGSL9/08
Plant
- Description
- Curtis's botanical magazine, v. 94 = ser. 3, v. 24, 1868 B glandulifera A Very elegant species, native of moist ravines in Trinidad, whence it was first sent to England by Mr. Lockhart, late Curator of the Botanic Gardens of that island. More recently living plants have been sent home by Mr. Prestoe, the present energetic Curator of those gardens, and to whom the Royal Gardens are indebted for many other fine plants; it flowered in February 1867. Description: Root-stock perennial, elongate, sending down numerous stout fibers. Stem none. Leaves from the apex of root stock on rather slender glandular petioles, three to six inches long; blade obliquely ovate-cordate, or semi-cordate, three to five inches long, acuminate, serrate-dentate, ciliolate, dark green above, and glabrous, beneath paler, with a few hairs on the strong nerves, which radiate from the apex of the petiole. Stipules ovate, obtuse, green or red. Scapes several, often very tall (six to eighteen inches high), covered in glandular hairs, bearing at the top a branched panicle of pure white flowers; branchlets and pedicels glandular-pilose, slender; bracts oblong·, obtuse, green, ciliate. Male flowers one-inch broad across the two outer perianth leaves, which are oblong, obtuse, glandular at the back; inner pair much smaller and narrower. Stamens numerous, collected into a small globose capitulum; filaments free; anthers oblong. Female flowers bibracteolate. Perianth leaves five, ovate, subacute, nearly equal. Styles three, persistent in fruit, bifid, with short stigmatic arms, surrounded with a papillose band; ovary three-celled, thrice-winged, glandular-pilose; two wings narrow, the third prolonged almost horizontally, longer than broad, subacute; Placentas bifid, the lobes ovuliferous on both surfaces. Capsule glandular, three-winged; wings membranous, veined, two smaller about as long as the capsule is broad; the third two - three times as long as the capsule is broad; upper margin straight, lower curved. - J. D. H.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
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