Dense humid forests. Loreto: Alto Rio Itaya, 145 meters, Williams 3497. Lower Rio Huallaga, 155-210 meters, Williams 3911. Soledad, on Rio ltaya, 110 meters, Killip & Smith 29717. Cachipuerto, Rio Cachiyacu, between Balsapuerto and Moyobamba, 250 meters, Klug 3129.-Cajamarca: Jaen, Humboldt & Bonpland. -San Martin: Tarapoto, Spruce 2846.- Huánuco: Muiia, Ruiz. Junin: Puerto Bermudez, 375 meters, Killip & Smith 26642 Indefinite: Chacahuassi, Pavon. - Eastern Peru, Spruce 3960. Central America; West Indies; Guiana to Colombia to Bolivia; Junction of Provinces of Guayas, Cafiar, Chimborazo and Bolivar: plants climbing tree ... trunk to 11 mo, leaves pale green; foothills of the western cordillera near the village of Bucay, 1,000-1,250 ft., E-3754. El Oro: plants climbing to 5 m. or more, flowers white; in Moro region (about 21 miles west of Porto: velo), 3,400-4,200 ft., in dense rain forest, E-630. Santiago-Zamora (''Oriente''): to 1.5 m., flowers pink; eastern slope of the cordillera, valley of the Rios Negro and Chupianza (on trail from Sevilla de Oro to Mendez), E-769.
Country
Mexico to Ecuador, West Indies, Guatemala to Peru
Region
America
Section
Wageneria
Chr 2n
38
Plant Type
Trailing-Scandent
Synonyms and Comments
B. scandensSwartz, Prod. Veg. Ind. Occ. :86. 1788.; B. elliptica Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth. Nov. Gen. Sp. 7:folio 138, quarto 180, pl. 641.1825.—A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):362. 1864 [= B. scandens Swartz. 1788.] —O.E. Schulz in Urban, Symb. Antil. 7:5. 1911.; B. populifolia Schott in Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 4(app) :408. 1827 non Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth. 1825.; B. lucida Otto & Dietrich, Allg. Gartenzeitung 16:162. 1848. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):362. 1864 [=B. scandens Swartz. 1788.] —O.E. Schulz in Urban, Symb. Antil. 7:5. 1911.; B. moritziana Kunth & Bouché Ind. Sem. hort. Berol. 1848 Coll. :16. 1849.; B. physalifoliaLiebmann, Vid. Medd. Naturh. F. Kjöbenhavn 1852 :19. 1853.; B. locellataA. de Candolle, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. ser. 4. 11:137. 1859. —L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45:54. 1958.; B. hoegeana Regel & Schmidt, Gartenfl. 35:398. 1886.; B. repens Sessé & Mociño, Fl. Mex., ed. 2 :219 .1894 non Lamarck. 1785.; B. U144; B. glabra Aublet var. physalifolia Liebmann ex Buxton Check List Begonias :78. 1957, nomen nudum. [This invalid variety is apparently a confused reference to B. physalifolia Liebmann. 1853, which is B. glabra Aublet var. glabra. 1775. JG; B. U167;
Reference
Hist. Pl. Guiane 2:916, pl. 349. 1775.— J. Sierra, Flora de Cuba 3:8, pl.3,
fig.7. 2000; JGSL9/08;
Article References
Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden. New York: The Garden,1900- v.8 1952-1954: Page: 36-40 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/150964 PLANTS COLLECTED IN ECUADOR BY W. H. CAMP. – BEGONIACEAE - LYMAN B. SMITH AND BERNICE G. SCHUBERT;
Photo References
JBS, Begonias :19. 1980; Murotani, Begonia in Colour :77. 1983; Tebbitt, Begonias 55. 2005; The Begonian, Nov 1941; Exotica - Pictorial Encyclopedia of Indoor plants; Begonias, Misono 1974: 56 (77);
