Species
B. scutifolia
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. scutifolia
- Author
- J. D. Hooker in Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr.
- Publication Date
- 1871
- Place
- Southern Cameroon, Gabon, Angola (Cabinda) and western Zaire.
- Habitat
- Terrestrial on banks of rivers and creeks or epiphytic on mossy tree trunks, on rocks or vertical rock faces, the rocks sometimes rich in iron; preferably in creek beds, near rapids and on other moist localities; in semi-shaded to shaded or sometimes deeply shaded sites in primary or old secondary forest or sometimes in recently logged forest; associated with Selaginella sp., ferns and Araceae; at 330-950 m altitude.
- Country
- Cameroon, Equatorial Africa
- Region
- Africa
- Plant Type
- Rhizomatous
- Synonyms and Comments
- B. triflora Irmscher var. caloskiadia N. Hallé, Adansonia II 7:509, pl.1:figs. 12–14. 1967.; B. triflora Irmscher var. triflora Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 57:245. 1921
- Reference
- Fl. Trop. Afr. 2:575. 1871.—M. Sosef, Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 94(1):206. Fig. 16.19, pl. 4a. 1994.; JGSL9/08
- Article References
- Tebbitt, Begonias 5:197(key). 2005; Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 94-1, p206-10 (1994)
- Photo References
- Tebbitt, Begonias pl.158. 2005; Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 94-1, p208(1994)
Plant
- Plant Height
- up to 10(-17) cm high
- Stem Type
- Rhizome rather compact and knotted to elongated and slender, 0.5-2.5(-3.5) mm wide, the younger part sometimes sparsely hirsute; the apical part not or slightly ascending.
- Other Features
- The leaves are eaten, cooked as spinach, often together with fish.
Lineage
1 descendants
Parents
No parentage recorded.
B. triflora Irmscher var. caloskiadia N. Hallé, Adansonia II 7:509, pl.1:figs. 12–14. 1967.; B. triflora Irmscher var. triflora Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 57:245. 1921
Descendants
1 recorded children
As female parent
1
Male parent: B. leprosa
As male parent
0
No children recorded with this plant as the male parent.
Culture
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