Species
B. altoperuviana
Photos
4 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. altoperuviana
- Author
- A. de Candolle, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. ser. 4.
- Publication Date
- 1859
- Habitat
- From the boundary region of Peru and Bolivia north of Lake Titicaca, Weddell 4556, type. ''Caupolipan'' not located, but the species undoubtedly occurs in Peru.
- Country
- Peru, Bolivia
- Region
- America
- Section
- Cyathocnemis
- Plant Type
- Shrub-like
- Reference
- Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. ser. 4. 11:123. 1859.; JGSL9/08
Plant
- Description
- Flora of Peru. by J. Francis Macbride. Chicago, Ill. Field Museum of Natural History, [1941] v. 13: pt. 4: no.1 (1941): Page 181- 202 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19800 Suffrutescent, glabrous. Branches elongate, herbaceous, purplish. Leaves obliquely ovate, acute, cordate toward the middle with the lower lobe amply rounded, 75 mm. long, 25-40 mm. wide, crenate serrate, 10- 12 nerved from the base, petiole 25- 50 mm. long, stipules deciduous, ovate-oblong, subacute. Inflorescence dichotomous, much-branched, peduncle straight, 75 mm. long, exceeding the leaves. Bracts deciduous, the upper oblong, 2 mm. long, those beneath the pistillate flowers ciliate-dentate. Staminate tepals 2, obtuse, 6-8 mm. long. Stamens on a low torus, anthers elliptic, about equaling the filaments, the connective produced, ovate. Pistillate tepals 5 or 4(?), ovate, acute, 1- 2 mm. long. Styles 3, bifid, the stigmatic tissue linear, spiral, ·continuous. Capsule obtuse at base, 8-10 mm. long, 16 mm. wide, the styles tardily deciduous, wings very unequal, the largest ovate, obtuse.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
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