Species
B. carpinifolia
Photos
5 photos
Identity
- Genus
- Begonia
- Name
- B. carpinifolia
- Author
- Liebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. For. Kjöbenhavn
- Publication Date
- 1853
- Habitat
- Cerros de Candelaria, 1,800 meters, Oersted. Frequent in forests of the central region, chiefly at 1,200- 2,400 meters; regions of Dota and San Ramon; reported from Boruca. Endemic.
- Country
- Costa Rica, Panama
- Region
- America
- Section
- Ruizopavonia
- Plant Type
- Shrub-like
- Reference
- Vid. Medd. Naturh. For. Kjöbenhavn 1852:20. 1853.; JGSL9/08
Plant
- Description
- Tolerates drier conditions - Rekha Morris Flora of Costa Rica. Begoniaceae. by Paul C. Standley. Chicago 1937. v. 18: pt. 2 (1937): Page 737-48 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19747 Plants slender, glabrous, often somewhat shrubby and as much as 2 meters high, branched; leaves short-petiolate, penninerved, ovate-oblong or lance-oblong, long-acuminate, unequally obtuse or acutish at the base, obscurely denticulate or almost entire, the lateral nerves about 6 on each side, mostly 5- 10 cm. long and 1.5-3 cm. wide; cymes mostly few-flowered and about equaling the leaves, the flowers white or pink; sepals 6 mm. long; capsule glabrous, 5- 6 mm. long, one of the angles produced into a wing 12 mm. long, the other angles very narrowly winged. A characteristic and rather handsome plant of mountain forests of the central region.
Lineage
Parents
No parentage recorded.
Descendants
No recorded descendants.
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