Species
B. modestiflora
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. modestiflora
- Author
- J. Kurz, Flora
- Publication Date
- 1871
- Place
- Yunnan;
- Habitat
- in wet rock crevices and stream banks at 175-1500 m alt; Also in moist shaded forest environments ca. 500-1400 m. alt.
- Country
- China; Myanmar; Thailand; Laos; India; Nepal.
- Region
- Asia
- Section
- Diploclinium
- Plant Type
- Tuberous - deciduous
- Synonyms and Comments
- Etymology: after the small flowers; B. wallichiana Steudel, Nom. Bot. ed 2 1:194. 1840, nomen nudum, non Lehmann. 1850.;B. yunnanensis Léveillé var. yunnanensis, Repert. Nov. Sp. 7:20. 1909.; B. sootepensis Craib, Bull. Misc. Inform. :57. 1911.; B. yunnanensis Léveillé var. sootepensis Craib, Aberd. Univ. Stud. 47:96. 1912.; B. yunnanensis Léveillé var. hypoleuca Léveillé, Cat. Pl. Yun–Nan. :17. 1916.; B. sootepensis Craib var. thorelii Gagnepain in Lecomte, Fl. Indo–Chine 2:1104. 1921.; B. yunnanensis Léveillé var. thorelii (Gagnepain) J. Golding & C. Karegeannes, Phytologia 54:499. 1984.
- Reference
- Flora 54:296. 1871. —H. Hara, J. Jap. Bot. 47:133. 1972. — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:186-7. 2007.; JGSL9/08
- Article References
- Tebbitt, Begonias 5:141. 2005; Hughes M. et al., Asian Begonia 212, 2018; Yu-Min Shui & Wen-Hong Chen, Begonia of China: p88, 2017
- Photo References
- Hughes M. et al., Asian Begonia 212, 2018; Yu-Min Shui & Wen-Hong Chen, Begonia of China: p88-89, 2017
Plant
- Description
- Deciduous. Showy when in full flower.
- Stem Type
- tubers borne on elongate stem like rhizomes
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Etymology: after the small flowers; B. wallichiana Steudel, Nom. Bot. ed 2 1:194. 1840, nomen nudum, non Lehmann. 1850.;B. yunnanensis Léveillé var. yunnanensis, Repert. Nov. Sp. 7:20. 1909.; B. sootepensis Craib, Bull. Misc. Inform. :57. 1911.; B. yunnanensis Léveillé var. sootepensis Craib, Aberd. Univ. Stud. 47:96. 1912.; B. yunnanensis Léveillé var. hypoleuca Léveillé, Cat. Pl. Yun–Nan. :17. 1916.; B. sootepensis Craib var. thorelii Gagnepain in Lecomte, Fl. Indo–Chine 2:1104. 1921.; B. yunnanensis Léveillé var. thorelii (Gagnepain) J. Golding & C. Karegeannes, Phytologia 54:499. 1984.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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