Species
B. taliensis
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. taliensis
- Author
- Gagnepain, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris)
- Publication Date
- 1919
- Place
- W. Yunnan; Sichuan
- Habitat
- In forest or scrubby vegetation at 1300-2400 m. alt.
- Country
- China
- Region
- Asia
- Section
- Diploclinium
- Plant Type
- Tuberous - deciduous
- Synonyms and Comments
- Etymology: after the locality of one of the syntypes near Tali, Yunnan
- Reference
- Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) 25:279. 1919.; — Yu-Min Shui, Ching-I Peng & Cheng-Yih Wu, Bot. Bull. Acad. Sin. 43:317. 2002. — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:200-1. 2007.JGSL9/08
- Article References
- Hughes M. et al., Asian Begonia 310, 2018; Yu-Min Shui & Wen-Hong Chen, Begonia of China: p38, 2017
- Photo References
- Tebbitt, Begonias pl.107. 2005; Hughes M. et al., Asian Begonia 310, 2018; Yu-Min Shui & Wen-Hong Chen, Begonia of China: p38-39, 2017
Plant
- Other Features
- relatively hardy
Lineage
2 descendants
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Etymology: after the locality of one of the syntypes near Tali, Yunnan
Descendants
2 recorded children
As female parent
0
No children recorded with this plant as the female parent.
As male parent
2
Female parent: B. pedatifida
Female parent: B. hemsleyana var. hemsleyana
Culture
- Comments
- Considered a cold hardy begonia as per John Boggan and his experience in his Washington DC garden.
- Endangered Status
- Near Threatened