Species

B. incarnata var. incarnata

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Genus: Begonia
Name: B. incarnata var. incarnata
Form Variety: var. incarnata
Author: Link & Otto, Icon. Pl. Rar.
Publication Date: 1829
Date of Origin: 1822
Place: Veracruz
Country: Mexico
Region: America
Section: Knesebeckia
Chr 2n: 28, 56?
Plant Type: Shrub-like
Synonyms and Comments: B. insignis Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J. 11: .1826-28, non visus ; Bot. Mag. 56:pl. 2900. 1829. —Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst. 2:213. 1843.; B. martiana auct. non Link & Otto: Schlechtendal, Linnaea 5:604. 1830. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):309. 1864.; B. ciliata hort. ex Steudel, Nom. Bot. ed 2 1:193. 1840, non Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth. 1825, pro syn. B. insignis Graham. 1829. —Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst. 2:213. 1843.; B. aucibifolia hort. ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :122. 1854—A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):309. 1864.; B. subpeltata hort. ex Regel, Gartenfl. 15:358. 1866, non Wight. 1852;
Reference: Icon. Pl. Rar. (4):37, pl. 19. 1829; JGSL9/08;
Article References: Tebbitt, Begonias 5:156-57. 2005.; Curtis's botanical magazine, v. 55 = ser. 2, v. 2, 1828; Curtis Botanical Magazine v. 56, ser. 2: v. 3 (1829); Edwards's botanical register. London v. 23 (1837) http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9059
Photo References: Murotani, Begonia in Colour :103. 1983; Tebbitt, Begonias pl.123. 2005; The Begonian, Dec 1953; The Begonian, Feb 1946;

Plant

Description: Curtis's botanical magazine, v. 55 = ser. 2, v. 2, 1828 B. incarnata as SYN. B. papillosa. Description: Stem erect, fourteen inches high, scarcely branched in our specimens, till after being cut down; but probably more so when in a vigorous state: somewhat tumid at the joints, rounded., brown. Petioles alternate, spreading, rounded., channeled above, pubescent, one and a quarter inch long. Leaves three and a half times as long as the petiole, very unequally cordate, acuminate, somewhat undulate and bullate, crisped, on the upper surface bright green and shining, occasionally spotted with white, and having distant papillae, of which each is terminated wih a curved rather harsh hair, red and glabrous below, except at the veins, which are sparingly pubescent, unequally dentato-ciliated, and somewhat angled. Stipules ovate, acuminate, smooth, entire, marcescent: Cymes: axillary, longer than the leaves, turned to one side of the stem, drooping, (thrice?) dichotomous; peduncles and pedicels flattened. Bracts opposite, ovate, colored, deciduous, placed in pairs at each division of the cyme, and at the base of each female flower, but wanting in the male. Male flowers placed in the axil of the bifurcations., and, as it would appear, always along with a female at the ultimate divisions of the cyme, where they hang on the outside of the female flowers in the two lateral, and, on the inside in the two middle divisions of the cyme; each always expands before the corresponding female flower. This distribution and premature evolution of the male flowers are common in the genus. Corolla tetrapetalous, very unequal: rather more so in the female flowers, where the outer petals are retuse, full three-quarters of an inch broad by half an inch long, in the male cordato-subrotund. Stamens numerous; filaments slender; anthers large, wedge-shaped. Germen inferior, nearly equally winged, the angles obtuse, the upper edges placed at right angles to the axis of the flower. Stipules three, channeled, enlarging upwards. Stigmas large, lobed, revolute, crisped, and pubescent. This species flowered in the stove of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in April of this year, 1828, and at about the same season during the three preceding years. We received the plant from Kew in 1824, but without specific name, or any intimation regarding its native country. - Graham.; Curtis Botanical Magazine v. 56, ser. 2: v. 3 (1829) B. incarnata as SYN. B. insignis Description: Stem erect, sub-herbaceous, entirely free from hairs, but rough and brown, swollen at the joints. Branches erect, smooth, shining, sub-pellucid, reddish, and with a few white oblong spots. Leaves alternate, on smooth, shining petioles, which are nearly round, and half the length of the leaves, unequally cordate, acuminate, slightly concave, pale green, and sparingly strigose above, paler green, or red, and always naked below, obscurely lobed, and doubly serrato-ciliate, crisped, especially when young. Stipules linear-triangular, narrow, acuminate, entire in the edge, pellucid, and nearly colorless, sub-marcescent. Peduncles terminal, twice or thrice dichotomous, nodding. Bracts cordato-ovate, keeled, reflected at the sides, a pair being placed at each bifurcation of the peduncle, caducous. Flowers monoecious, large, rose-colored, very handsome. Male: one standing in each bifurcation, on a peduncle above two inches long, and having in the ultimate division a female flower on each side, unless, as is not infrequent, one of the females proves abortive ; corolla tetrapetalous, two of the petals large (three-fourths of an inch in either diameter), cordato-subrotund, and slightly pointed, the two others nearly as long, but much narrower, spathulate; stamens about forty, yellow, monadelphous; anthers bilobular, wedge-shaped, somewhat flattened; pollen yellow. Female: corolla smaller than in the male, generally of five, obovate, somewhat · irregular, unequal petals, occasionally only four; style greenish-yellow, stout, three-parted, diverging, enlarging and flattened towards the stigmata, which are large, revolute, glandular, each with two ascending angles, bright yellow; germen pale green, with three very unequal wings, the largest acute, the second rounded., the smallest obtuse angled, trilocular, placentae double in each loculament, waved, extending from the central column, to which they are attached, to the angles, throughout the whole length of the capsule, and everywhere densely covered with minute ovules. The male flowers expand first, and one of the females before the other, on the same division of the peduncle. We received a plant of this beautiful species from the Botanic Garden, Berlin, in spring last, under the name of Begonia ciliata, but it differs entirely from the description of that species by Kunth, and I think from every other which is recorded. Its foliage is not equal to B. argyrostigma, nor the appearance of its stem to B. dipetala, but it surpasses these and perhaps every other cultivated species in the gracefully drooping clusters of its large, bright rose-colored flowers. It adds greatly to its value that it flowered most freely in the stove during December. I regret that I cannot state from what country it was introduced into Europe. - Graham; Edwards's botanical register. London v. 23 (1837) http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/9059 as SYN. Begonia insignis - There is no plant in our hothouses more beautiful than this in the months of December and January, when it produces its lovely semitransparent rose-colored flowers. Many species are more conspicuous for the size and richness of their foliage, but none for the gayness of their blossoms. It was introduced from the Berlin Garden and is probably a Brazilian species. We have not, however, seen any wild specimen. It flourishes with but little care in a good greenhouse, but like all the species acquires its greatest perfection if kept in the stove, when in its most rapid growth. My drawing was made from a charming specimen belonging to Lady Antrobus.
Plant Habit: Bushy
Plant Height: Low to Medium <1m
Stem Type: Erect
Stem Habit: Well Branched

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B. insignis Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J. 11: .1826-28, non visus ; Bot. Mag. 56:pl. 2900. 1829. —Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst. 2:213. 1843.; B. martiana auct. non Link & Otto: Schlechtendal, Linnaea 5:604. 1830. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):309. 1864.; B. ciliata hort. ex Steudel, Nom. Bot. ed 2 1:193. 1840, non Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth. 1825, pro syn. B. insignis Graham. 1829. —Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst. 2:213. 1843.; B. aucibifolia hort. ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :122. 1854—A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):309. 1864.; B. subpeltata hort. ex Regel, Gartenfl. 15:358. 1866, non Wight. 1852;

B. incarnata var. incarnata

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