Moist shaded banks. Junin: Colonia Perene, 680 meters, Killip & Smith 25003. Indefinite: Mountains, Pavon. Tobago; Trinidad; Guiana; Venezuela; Brazil; Santiago-Zamora (''Oriente''): low plants on bank; stems red; leaves pale green above, paler below; peduncles bright red; perianths of both male and female flowers white; fruit pale yellow-cream with greenish tint, brown when mature; uplands just south of Rio Chupianza, valley of the Rio Upano, from the Rio Paute north ca. 17 km. to the Chupiangas, 1,950-2,200 ft., E-1442. Madagascar, Seychelles Islands, Reunion (introduced?). Sambirano: Nossi Be, near houses, Perrier de la Bathie 18708. Habitat: rocky places at low altitude; fl. Sept.
Country
West Indies to Peru and Brazil
Region
America
Section
Doratometra
Chr 2n
Plant Type
Shrub-like
Synonyms and Comments
lucida Haworth, Saxifr. Enum. :197. 1821.—A. de Candolle in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):343. 1861.; meyenianaWalpers, Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.–Carol, Nat. Cur. 16, Suppl. 2(19, suppl. 1):409. 1843.; hirsuta herb. Ruiz ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :127. 1854 pro syn. Pilderia hirsuta Klotzsch. 1854. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):381. 1864 [= pavoniana A. de Candolle. 1859.] —O.E. Schulz in Urban, Symb. Antil. 7:27. 1911.; pavoniana A. de Candolle. 1859.; subhumilis A. de Candolle, Ann. Sci. nat., Bot. ser. 4. 11:124. 1859.; guyanensis A. de Candolle var. cearensis C. de Candole in Huber, Bull. Herb. Boissier ser.2. 1:315. 1901.; lokobeënsis Humbert ex Keraudren-Aymonin & Bosser, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. (Paris) III 47:80. 1972. —M. Keraudren–Aymonin, Fl. Madagascar 144:62. 1983.; hirsuta hort. Kew,1857 ex A. de Candolle in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1):343. 1861.; hirsuta Pavon ex A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):381. 1864, pro syn. pavoniana A. de Candolle. 1859. —O.E. Schulz in Urban, Symb. Antil. 7:27. 1911.; alemanii Brade. 1945.
Reference
Hort. Kew 3:353. 1789.; Trans. Linn. Soc. 1:166, pl. 15. 1791.
— E.L. Jacques & M.C.H. Mamede, Revista Brasil. Bot. 28(3):582. 2005.; The Begonian, Nov-Dec 2014; JGSL9/08;
Article References
Tebbitt, Begonias 5:150-51.(key) 2005; 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 Flore de Madagascar et des Comores; M. Keraudren-Aymonin & Aymonin G. 1983. — Begoniaceae. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 123 p. vol. 144-145).
