In moist evergreen broad-leaved forests ca. 500-1800 m. alt.
Country
China; Tibet; Myanmar; Thailand; Laos; Vietnam; India.
Region
Asia
Section
Platycentrum
Chr 2n
22
Plant Type
Rhizomatous
Synonyms and Comments
B. tetragona Irmscher, Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 10:515. 1939; B. aptera auct. non Blume: Gagnepain in Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 2:1110. 1921.— R. Kiew, Adansonia ser. 3, 29(2):230. 2007. Section Sphenanthera now included in section Platycentrum; Etymology: little sour begonia
Reference
Bull. Misc. Inform. :153. 1912. —Irmscher, Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 6:347. 1927. — M.C. Tebbitt, Brittonia 55(1):22. 2003. — Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland, Flora of China 13, Begoniaceae 14:161. 2007.;JGSL9/08
Article References
Tebbitt, Begonias 5:168-69. 2005; Rekha Morris, Begonian 77:6-9, 27-29. 2010; Asian Begonia p4, 2018 Hughes M. et al; Yu-Min Shui & Wen-Hong Chen, Begonia of China: p54, 2017
Photo References
Rekha Morris, Begonian 77:29. 2010; Asian Begonia p4, 2018 Hughes M. et al; Yu-Min Shui & Wen-Hong Chen, Begonia of China: p54-55, 2017