- Family: Begoniaceae C.Agardh
- Genus: Begonia L.
Begonia eminii Warb.
- Genus: Begonia L.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Nigeria to South Sudan and Angola.
[FWTA]
Begoniaceae, Hutchinson and Dalziel. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1:1. 1954
- Habit
- A branched, scrambling epiphyte; rooting at nodes
- Flowers
- Flowers pinkish or red
- Fruits
- Fruit scarlet, rarely white.
[FTEA]
Begoniaceae, Vanessa Plana, Martin J.S. Sands & Henk J. Beentje. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2006
- Type
- Type: Tanzania, Bukoba, Stuhlmann 1453 (B, lecto., chosen by de Wilde).
- Habit
- Terrestrial or epiphytic, erect to 120 cm high or climbing (fide Vollesen) and to 4 m long; stems succulent, green and/or red, up to 1.2 cm thick, branched, rooting at the nodes, woody at the base; indumentum of peltate scales with fimbriate margins.
- Stipules
- Stipules narrowly triangular, 2–4.5 cm long, caducous, neither boat-shaped nor curved, apex acuminate, indumentum present on outside, glabrous within.
- Leaves
- Leaves drying papery, green above, purple or with reddish veins beneath, almost symmetrical, narrowly ovate to ovate, 6.5–22 × 2.5–11 cm, base oblique, deeply cordate, margin entire to obscurely denticulate, apex acute to shortly acuminate, glabrous above, sparsely hairy beneath, denser on venation; venation pinnate; petiole red, 2–13(–17) cm long, densely hairy.
- Inflorescences
- Female inflorescence with 2–3(–7) flowers, peduncle 1–8 mm long; bracts similar to those in male inflorescence; bracteoles present, ovate, 2–4 mm. Male inflorescence with up to 15 flowers; peduncle 5–15 mm long; bracts opposite, up to 7 mm long, smaller in the upper parts of the inflorescence, chartaceous, almost connate; pedicels up to 4–11 mm. Inflorescence axillary, a unisexual dichasial cyme.
- Flowers
- Female flowers: sessile, tepals 4, free, shape and colour similar to male flowers, the outer 5–10.5 × 2.5–5 mm, the inner 3–8 × 1.5–2.5 mm; ovary red, fusiform, without wings, 3-locular; placentation septal; styles 3, yellow, forked at the apex, glabrous, not persistent in fruit; stigmatic band yellow, horseshoe-shaped, weakly twisted (1/2 turn). Male flowers: tepals 4, free, white often tinged with red at the apex or pinkish, the outer elliptic to obovate, 4–12 × 3–6 mm, the inner narrowly obovate, 3–9 × 1.5–3 mm; stamens 7–15, free or fused at the base, anthers oblong, curved inward, 1–2 mm long, apex obtuse.
- Fruits
- Fruits pendulous when mature, red, fleshy, fusiform, 2–5 cm long, terete in cross section, straight, dehiscent by 1 or more lateral longitudinal slits.
- Ecology
- Terrestrial or on living trees, logs or rocks in moist forest, often near streams, also in water-logged forest; 1000–1500 m.
- Conservation
- Least concern (LC); widespread.
- Distribution
- Flora districts: U2 U4 K5 T1 Range: Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Burundi, Sudan, Angola
Native to:
Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaïre
Begonia eminii Warb. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 1, 2002 | Cable, S. [2541], Cameroon | K000008529 | ||
Oct 1, 2002 | Cable, S. [3528], Cameroon | K000008530 | ||
Oct 1, 2002 | Cable, S. [3263], Cameroon | K000008531 | ||
Oct 1, 2002 | Etuge, M. [2149], Cameroon | K000008526 | ||
Oct 1, 2002 | Etuge, M. [2453], Cameroon | K000008527 | ||
Oct 1, 2002 | Plana V. [76], Cameroon | K000008532 | ||
Oct 1, 2002 | Plana V. [99], Cameroon | K000008533 | ||
Oct 1, 2002 | Schoenenberger, J. [75], Cameroon | K000008534 | ||
Oct 1, 2002 | Mackinder, B. [281], Cameroon | K000008528 | ||
May 1, 2001 | Cheek, M. [9581], Cameroon | K000108141 | ||
May 1, 2001 | Cable, S. [2779], Cameroon | K000050619 | ||
May 1, 2001 | Kenfack, D. [310], Cameroon | K000050613 | ||
May 1, 2001 | Sidwell, K. [313], Cameroon | K000050622 | ||
May 1, 2001 | Zapfack, L. [686], Cameroon | K000050612 | ||
May 1, 2001 | Onana, J.-M. [545], Cameroon | K000108138 | ||
Jan 1, 1996 | Schoenenberger, J. [42], Cameroon | K000050591 | ||
Dec 1, 1994 | Cable, S. [452], Cameroon | K000011198 | ||
Dec 1, 1994 | Cable, S. [246], Cameroon | K000011199 | ||
Dec 1, 1994 | Tekwe, C. [116], Cameroon | K000011204 | ||
Jan 1, 1994 | Wheatley, J.I. [472], Cameroon | K000011201 | ||
Jan 1, 1994 | Wheatley, J.I. [412], Cameroon | K000011202 | ||
Jan 1, 1994 | Cable, S. [12], Cameroon | K000011200 | ||
Jan 1, 1994 | Sunderland, T.C.H. [1496], Cameroon | K000011203 | ||
Jan 1, 1992 | Gregory, H. [166], Cameroon | K000050504 | ||
Sep 1, 1989 | Thomas, D.W. [4318], Cameroon | K000050508 | ||
Sep 1, 1989 | Thomas, D.W. [4242], Cameroon | K000050509 | ||
Sep 1, 1989 | Thomas, D.W. [3176], Cameroon | K000050510 | ||
Jan 1, 1985 | Preuss P. R. [960], Cameroon | K000050499 | Unknown type material | |
Jan 1, 1985 | Migeod, F. W. H. [221], Cameroon | K000050502 | ||
Jan 1, 1953 | Hutchinson, J. [130], Cameroon | K000050505 | ||
Dawkins, H.C. [347], Uganda | 11559.000 | |||
Osmaston, H.A. [1026], Uganda | 9968.000 | |||
Thorold, C.A. [CD 10], Cameroon | K000050503 | |||
Saxer, A. [50], Cameroon | K000050511 | |||
Thompson, S.A. [1590], Cameroon | K000050506 | |||
Thompson, S.A. [1518], Cameroon | K000050507 |
First published in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(6a): 141 (1894)
Accepted by
- Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.
- Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
- Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Engl. Pflanzenw. Afr. 3, 2: 620 (1921).
- in Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C: 282 (1895)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Wageningen Univ. Papers 2001-2: 71 (2002).
- U.K.W.F. ed. 2: 92 (1994)
- F.C.B., Begoniaceae: 27, t. 3 (1969)
- F.P.S. 1: 183 (1950)
- P.O.A. C: 282 (1895)
- E. & P. Pf. 3 (6a): 141 (1894)
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