Species
B. lacunosa
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. lacunosa
- Author
- Warburg in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam.
- Publication Date
- 1894
- Date of Origin
- 1895
- Place
- Western Cameroon mountains, Gabon, south-western Congo, western and eastern Zaire and Angola (Cabinda).
- Habitat
- Locally common; terrestral or on mossy rocks or rock faces or sometimes on decaying tree trunks; sometimes on level sites but preferably on slopes, creek beds or steep banks, always on moist sites and often in the vicinity of creeks, rivers or waterfalls, sometimes in the spray zone of waterfalls; in shaded to deeply shaded sites in primary to old secondary lowland rain forest; in forest with Staudtia and Pentadesma, on rocks with Hymenophyllaceae, found associated with Begonia atroglandulosa subsp. tshelaensis; at up to 700 m altitude.
- Country
- Cameroon, Gabon, Zaire, Angola, Dem. Rep. Congo
- Region
- Africa
- Section
- Scutobegonia
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Synonyms and Comments
- mayombensis Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:181. 1961. Fig. 2.15. —M. Sosef, Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 94(1):249. 1994.
- Reference
- Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(6A) :140. 1894; Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 22:42. 1895. —M. Sosef, Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 94(1):249. Fig. 17.10, pl. 3a,b. 1994.; JGSL9/08
- Article References
- Tebbitt, Begonias 5:196-97(key). 2005.
Plant
- Stem Type
- Rhizome rather stout to fairly slender, smooth, 0.9-6.0 mm wide, especially the younger parts hirsute or not; the apical part not or slightly ascending.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
mayombensis Irmscher, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 81:181. 1961. Fig. 2.15. —M. Sosef, Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 94(1):249. 1994.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
- Propagation Method
- Will not propagate from a leaf for me, requires a stem cutting which roots easily - Freda Holley
- Comments
- I rather doubt that is rhizomatous, seems more shrub like in growth - Freda Holley