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

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.

Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. 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