Species
B. pedatifida
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. pedatifida
- Author
- Leveille, Repert. Nov. Sp.
- Publication Date
- 1909
- Place
- Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou;
- Habitat
- In moist, broad-leaved forests between 300-1700 m alt.
- Country
- China; Vietnam
- Region
- Asia
- Section
- Platycentrum
- Chr 2n
- 44
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Synonyms and Comments
- Etymology: Latin pedatus (divided) alluding to the leaves; B. pedatifida Léveillé var. kewensis Léveillé. 1909.
- Reference
- Repert. Nov. Sp. 7:21. 1909.— Hua-Gu Ye, Fa-Guo Wang, Yu-Shi Ye & Ching-I Peng. Bot. Bull. Acad. Sin. 45:263-4, pl 4. 2004. — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:191. 2007.; JGSL9/08 NAKATA, M., GUAN, K., LI, J., LU, Y. and LI, H. (2007), Cytotaxonomy of Begonia rubropunctata and B. purpureofolia (Begoniaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 155: 513–517.
- Article References
- Beg 16:104. 1949; Tebbitt, Begonias 5:131 & 145. 2005; Hughes M. et al., Asian Begonia 235, 2018; Yu-Min Shui & Wen-Hong Chen, Begonia of China: p115, 2017
- Photo References
- Tebbitt, Begonias pl.94. 2005; Hughes M. et al., Asian Begonia 235, 2018; Yu-Min Shui & Wen-Hong Chen, Begonia of China: p115, 2017
Plant
- Stem Type
- Thick rhizome
Lineage
1 descendants
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Etymology: Latin pedatus (divided) alluding to the leaves; B. pedatifida Léveillé var. kewensis Léveillé. 1909.
Descendants
1 recorded children
As female parent
1
Male parent: B. taliensis
As male parent
0
No children recorded with this plant as the male parent.
Culture
- Comments
- Considered a cold hardy begonia as per John Boggan and his experience in his Washington DC garden.