Species

B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia

Photos

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Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia
Form Variety: var. hydrocotylifolia
Author: Otto ex W. J. Hooker, Bot. Mag.
Publication Date: 1842
Country: Mexico
Region: America
Section: Gireoudia
Chr 2n: 28
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Synonyms and Comments: B. hydrocotylifolia Graham ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königel. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :125. 1854 pro syn. Gireoudia hydrocotylifolia (Otto ex W.J. Hooker) Klotzsch. 1854;
Reference: Bot. Mag. 69:pl. 3968. 1842; JGSL9/08;
Article References: Tebbitt, Begonias 5:153-54. 2005;
Photo References: JBS, Begonias :50. 1980; Murotani, Begonia in Colour :91. 1983; Tebbitt, Begonias pl.119. 2005; Exotica - Pictorial Encyclopedia of Indoor plants; Begonias, Misono 1974: 64 (90);

Plant

Description: This is one of the many pretty BEGONIAS with which our stoves have been enriched through the liberality of the Royal Botanic Garden of Berlin. As far as my investigations will allow me to judge, it is not a specie anywhere described, and I give it under the name by which we have received it from M. Otto. It flowers with us during the summer season. Description: The stem is short, thick, succulent, but perennial, creeping and throwing out fibrous roots from beneath. Towards the apex, throwing up several leaves, which have petioles, two or more inches long, thick and fleshy, hairy. The blade about 2” across, rotundate, cordate, entire, nearly equilateral above convex, shining and nearly glabrous, the margin and beneath pubescent. At the base of the petioles are rnembranaceous, fringed stipules, which soon become brown, and give a scaly appearance to the stem. Peduncles axillary, eight to ten inches to a foot high, clothed with spreading hairs, and bearing a compound raceme or panicle at the apex, pale red. Flowers, of both kinds, with two spreading, deep rose-colored, rounded petals. Stamens and styles, as in the Genus. Fruit oval, triquetrous, with three moderately broad, nearly equal wings.

Lineage

41 descendants

Parents

No parentage recorded.

B. hydrocotylifolia Graham ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königel. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :125. 1854 pro syn. Gireoudia hydrocotylifolia (Otto ex W.J. Hooker) Klotzsch. 1854;