Featured: Lysimachia arvensis Image from Stuppy & Kesseler
©Papadakis Publisher

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

      1. Begonia nepalensis (A.DC.) Warb.

        This species is accepted, and its native range is Nepal to Myanmar.

    Images

    Distribution

    Native to:

    Assam, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal

    Begonia nepalensis (A.DC.) Warb. appears in other Kew resources:

    Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
    Jan 13, 2009 Wallich, N. [3677], Nepal K000761414 holotype
    Jan 13, 2009 Wallich, N. [3677], Nepal K000761415 Unknown type material

    First published in H.G.A.Engler & K.A.E.Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(6a): 142 (1894)

    Accepted by

    • Saikia, R., Roy, H. & Borthakur, S.K. (2011). New report of occurence of two species of Begonia Linnaeus (Begoniaceae) from Assam, India Pleione 5: 357-360.
    • Hughes, M. (2008). An annotated checklist of Southeast Asian Begonia: 1-164. Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.
    • Uddin, A. (2007). Distribution and status of Indian Begonia L. species Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 31: 591-597.
    • Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.

    Literature

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    • Saikia, R., Roy, H. & Borthakur, S.K. (2011). New report of occurence of two species of Begonia Linnaeus (Begoniaceae) from Assam, India Pleione 5: 357-360.
    • Uddin, A. (2007). Distribution and status of Indian Begonia L. species Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 31: 591-597.

    Sources

    Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
    'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. 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 2020. 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