Begonia rubella Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don

Camfield, Rebecca & Hughes, Mark, 2018, A revision and one new species of Begonia L. (Begoniaceae, Cucurbitales) in Northeast India, European Journal of Taxonomy 396, pp. 1-116 : 105-106

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.396

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3794231

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0397A96F-2F05-FFBE-03E8-F971E2072FC7

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Valdenar

scientific name

Begonia rubella Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
status

 

Begonia rubella Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don View in CoL [sect. Diploclinium]

Prodromus Florae Nepalensis: 223 ( Don 1825).

– Type: Nepal, 10 Sep. 1802, Buchanan-Hamilton s.n. (holo-: BM000521517 ) .

Description

This species is similar to B. dioica , and both species can be found in the neighbouring countries of Nepal and Myanmar. They are similar vegetatively but B. rubella has much smaller flowers that are similar in size to those of B. ovatifolia .

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

SubClass

Magnoliidae

SuperOrder

Rosanae

Order

Cucurbitales

Family

Begoniaceae

Genus

Begonia

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