Species
B. guaduensis
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. guaduensis
- Author
- Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp.
- Publication Date
- 1825
- Habitat
- Santiago-Zamora (''Oriente''): erect, 2 meters, flowers white, 10 km. upstream from Zamora, 4,500 ft., valley of the Rio Zamora, east of Loja, E-54. New to Ecuador.
- Country
- Central and South America
- Region
- America
- Section
- Lepsia
- Chr 2n
- 28 & 104
- Plant Type
- Shrub-like
- Synonyms and Comments
- B. ottonis Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst. 2:212. 1843.; B. walpersii Heynhold, Nom. Bot. 2:63. 1846.; B. laurina hort. ex A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):292. 1864.; B. serratifolia C. de Candolle, Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 69(12):7. 1919.; B. andreana Sprague, Trans. & Proc. Bot. Edinburgh 22:433. 1905.; B. guadensis Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth var. andreana (Sprague) L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert. 1946;
- Reference
- Nov. Gen. Sp., 7:folio 137, quarto 178. 1825.—L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Caldasia 4:183, pl. 14. 1946. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Fl. Venezuela 4(1):29. 1989; JGSL9/08; The Begonian, Oct 1976;
- Article References
- Tebbitt, Begonias 5:141-43. 2005; Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. New York: The Garden,1900- v.8 1952-1954: Page: 36-40 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/150964 PLANTS COLLECTED IN ECUADOR BY W. H. CAMP. – BEGONIACEAE - LYMAN B. SMITH AND BERNICE G. SCHUBERT;
- Photo References
- Tebbitt, Begonias pl.108. 2005; Beg 90 p58-59 Mar/Apr 2023;8
Plant
- Description
- Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. New York: The Garden, 1900- v. 8 1952-1954: Page: 36-40 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/150964 Santiago-Zamora (''Oriente''): erect, 2 meters, flowers white, 10 km. upstream from Zamora, 4,500 ft., valley of the Rio Zamora, east of Loja, E-54. New to Ecuador; As B. andreana in Just's botanischer jahresbericht. Systematisch geordnetes repertorium der botanischen literatur aller länder. Berlin,Gebr. Borntraeger, 1874-98; Jahrg. 33, Abt. 3 (1905): Page 140 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18935 Herba 2-pedalis, caule erecto; folia petiolata, ovato-oblonga, acuta, glabra, penninervia; inflorescentia multiflora 25 -30 cm diam., pedunculis pluries dichotomis; fl. masc.: sepala 2 suborbicularia; petala 2 anguste obovata; filamenta libera, toro convexo inserta. antheris duplo vel sesqu-longiora, connectivo ultra loculos producto; fl. fem.: lobi 5 ovati vel ovato-oblongi; styli 3 trifidi, ramis iterum bifidis, supra spiraliter evolutis; fructus ala maxima subtriangulari, margine Superiore horizontali recto 1.75 cm longo. inferiore curvato, duabus ceteris multo minoribus. Columbia: Villavicencio (Balfour no. 133).
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
B. ottonis Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst. 2:212. 1843.; B. walpersii Heynhold, Nom. Bot. 2:63. 1846.; B. laurina hort. ex A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):292. 1864.; B. serratifolia C. de Candolle, Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 69(12):7. 1919.; B. andreana Sprague, Trans. & Proc. Bot. Edinburgh 22:433. 1905.; B. guadensis Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth var. andreana (Sprague) L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert. 1946;
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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