Species
B. urticae
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. urticae
- Author
- Linnaeus f., Suppl.
- Publication Date
- 1781
- Habitat
- Huanuco: Huallaga y Mufia, 3,100 meters,Colombia: Ecuador: Azuay: flowers and fruit crimson; the eastern cordillera, 1-8 km north of the village of Sevilla de Oro, 8,000-9,000 ft., E-4346. To 2 m. leaves deep green above, veins red below, flowers bright crimson; in thicket, same locality; E-4621. Loja-'oriente'' Border: perianth segments bright red; stigmas bright crimson or red; stamens pink; fruit red; crest of the Cordillera de Zamora, east of Loja, ca. 10,000 ft., E-91. With much the same appearance of No. 91, except perianth segments white, fruit green; E-920 Flowers deep red; leaves dark green above, pale below with red veins; plants from thin rhizomes; fruit beaked; wings equal; Nudo de Guagrauma, ca. 12 km. south of Zaraguro, 9,500-10,500 ft, E-136 Weberbauer 6723.
- Country
- Costa Rica to Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador & Columbia
- Region
- America
- Section
- Casparya
- Plant Type
- Shrub-like
- Synonyms and Comments
- antioquensis (A. de Candolle) Warburg in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(6A):146. 1894. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Caldasia 4:30, pl. 6. 1946. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, in Harling & Andersson, Fl. Ecuador, 25:29. 1986. ; urticifolia J. E. Smith. 1790. ; columnaris Bentham, Pl. Hartw. :131. 1844. ; coccinea Ruiz ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :127. 1854. ; glabra herb. Ruiz ex Klotzsch Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :128. 1854. ; cucullata Ruiz ex Klotzsch. 1855. ; monticola C. de Candolle, Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2. 8:325. 1908. ; chiriquensis Standley, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 27:321. 1 940.—L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Caldasia 4:34. 1946. ; columnaris Bentham var. glabra (A. de Candolle.) L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Bot. Ser. 13:187. 1941. ; urticae Linnaeus f. var. hispida A. de Candolle ex Standley. 1937. ; columnaris Pavon in herb. Boissier ex A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):274. 1864. ;torresii Standley, J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 17:313. 1927.; trachyptera Bentham, Pl. Hartw. :184. 184 5. ; u123, u124, u148, u239; urticae Linnaeus f. var. retusa L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert. 1946.
- Reference
- f., Suppl.: 420. 1781.; JGSL9/08
- Article References
- Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. New York: The Garden,1900- v.8 1952-1954: Page: 36-40 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/150964 PLANTS COLLECTED IN ECUADOR BY W. H. CAMP. – BEGONIACEAE - LYMAN B. SMITH AND BERNICE G. SCHUBERT
Plant
- Description
- As B. columnaris Benth. Pl. Hartw. 131. 1839. Sassea columnaris Kl. Begon. 134. 1855. Casparya columnaris A. DC. In DC. Prodr. 15, pt. 1: 274. 1864. Flora of Peru. by J. Francis Macbride. Chicago, Ill. Field Museum of Natural History, [1941] v. 13: pt. 4: no.1 (1941): Page 181- 202 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19800 Herbaceous, 2-4 dm. high. Branches fuscous-puberulous, becoming glabrous. Leaves asymmetric especially toward base, mostly straight, ovate or elliptic, acute or acuminate, base acute on one side, obtuse on other, 3-7 cm. long, shallowly lobed, serrate, ciliate, puberulent especially beneath on the nerves, petiole 2- 10 mm. long, stipules deciduous, ovate, exceeding the petiole. Peduncles erect, finally exceeding the leaves, 1- 4-flowered. Bracts deciduous, elliptic, setaceous-dentate at apex. Pedicels 6-16 mm. long. Flowers red. Staminate tepals 4, subequal, 4-8 mm. long, elliptic. Stamens on a low torus, anthers linear, the connective produced, subacute, filaments short. Pistillate tepals 5, elliptic. Styles 3, much-branched, wholly covered with stigmatic papillae, placentae bilamellate. Capsule 20-25 mm. long, obtuse or subcordate at base, the 3 triangular acute horns shorter than the cylindric apex. - F. M. Neg. 7313 (var. glabra. F. M. Neg. 20855); Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. New York: The Garden, 1900- v. 8 1952-1954: Page: 36-40 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/150964 Azuay: flowers and fruit crimson; the eastern cordillera, 1-8 km north of the village of Sevilla de Oro, 8,000-9,000 ft., E-4346. To 2 m. leaves deep green above, veins red below, flowers bright crimson; in thicket, same locality; E-4621. Loja-'oriente'' Border: perianth segments bright red; stigmas bright crimson or red; stamens pink; fruit red; crest of the Cordillera de Zamora, east of Loja, ca. 10,000 ft., E-91. With much the same appearance of No. 91, except perianth segments white, fruit green; E-920 Flowers deep red; leaves dark green above, pale below with red veins; plants from thin rhizomes; fruit beaked; wings equal; Nudo de Guagrauma, ca. 12 km. south of Zaraguro, 9,500-10,500 ft, E-136.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
antioquensis (A. de Candolle) Warburg in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(6A):146. 1894. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Caldasia 4:30, pl. 6. 1946. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, in Harling & Andersson, Fl. Ecuador, 25:29. 1986. ; urticifolia J. E. Smith. 1790. ; columnaris Bentham, Pl. Hartw. :131. 1844. ; coccinea Ruiz ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :127. 1854. ; glabra herb. Ruiz ex Klotzsch Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :128. 1854. ; cucullata Ruiz ex Klotzsch. 1855. ; monticola C. de Candolle, Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2. 8:325. 1908. ; chiriquensis Standley, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 27:321. 1 940.—L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Caldasia 4:34. 1946. ; columnaris Bentham var. glabra (A. de Candolle.) L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Bot. Ser. 13:187. 1941. ; urticae Linnaeus f. var. hispida A. de Candolle ex Standley. 1937. ; columnaris Pavon in herb. Boissier ex A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):274. 1864. ;torresii Standley, J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 17:313. 1927.; trachyptera Bentham, Pl. Hartw. :184. 184 5. ; u123, u124, u148, u239; urticae Linnaeus f. var. retusa L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert. 1946.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
Culture
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