AN UPDATED CHECKLIST AND KEY TO THE SPECIES OF BOLIVIAN BEGONIA, INCLUDING ONE NEW SPECIES
Author
Moonlight, Peter
Author
Fuentes, Alfredo F.
text
Edinburgh Journal of Botany
2022
2022-08-18
79
407
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http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/ejb.2022.407
journal article
10.24823/EJB.2022.407
1747-0036
10553332
9.41.
Begonia glabra
Aubl., Hist. Pl. Guiane
2: 916, t. 349 (1775).
–
Type: [
French Guiana
],
Cayanne Arrondissement
,
entre la riviere de Sinémari & le crique de Galibis
,
5°8′N
,
52°38′W
],
J.B.C.F. Aublet
s.n.
(
lectotype
BM
[
BM001008462
], designated in:
Phytologia 44(4): 239 (1979)
by Smith, L.B. & Wasshausen, D.C.)
.
L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert,
Revista Univ. (Cuzco) 33(87): 82 (1944)
; R.C. Foster, Contr. Gray Herb. 184: 137 (1958); D.C. Wasshausen
et al.
in P.M. JØrgensen
et al.
(eds), Cat.
Bolivia
,
Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 129: 384 (2013)
.
Distribution
.
Jamaica
,
Cuba
,
Mexico
,
Guatemala
,
Belize
,
Nicaragua
,
Costa Rica
,
Panama
,
Trinidad and Tobago
,
Venezuela
,
Guyana
,
Suriname
, French Guiana,
Colombia
,
Ecuador
,
Peru
,
Bolivia
and
Brazil
.
Identification notes
.
Begonia glabra
is the only scandent species of
Begonia
in
Bolivia
that roots at its nodes. It is also unique in
Bolivia
in its straight, subsymmetrical and ovate leaves, which are three-veined from the base.