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  1. Family: Begoniaceae C.Agardh
    1. Genus: Begonia L.

      1. Begonia lacunosa Warb.

        This species is accepted, and its native range is W. Central Tropical Africa.

    [FWTA]

    Begoniaceae, Hutchinson and Dalziel. Flora of West Tropical Africa 1:1. 1954

    Habit
    A creeping herb
    Flowers
    Flowers white, pink at base.

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    Distribution

    Native to:

    Cabinda, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Zaïre

    Begonia lacunosa Warb. appears in other Kew resources:

    Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
    Nov 1, 1991 Dawe, M.T. [278], Angola K000242529 holotype

    First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 22: 42 (1895)

    Accepted by

    • 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: 617 (1921).
    • in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 22: 42 (1895)

    Sources

    Flora of West Tropical Africa
    Flora of West Tropical Africa
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    Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0