Begonia ferox C.I Peng & Yan Liu

sect. Coelocentrum
Common Name: The Fierce Begonia
Family: Begoniaceae C.A. Agardh

Country of Origin: southwestern Guangxi, China
Habitat: On limestone rocks with abundant leaf litter

Description: Monoecious rhizomatous herb. Rhizome stout, creeping, 1-2(-2.5) cm thick, to 40 cm long, internodes 1–1.5 cm long, villous near base of petiole. Stipules eventually deciduous, ovate-triangular, 1–1.7 cm long, 1.1-1.5 cm wide, herbaceous, strongly keeled, abaxially hairy along midrib, apex aristate, arista ca. 0.2 cm long. Leaves alternate, petiole terete, 10-23(-27) cm long, 0.4-0.7 cm thick, villous when young, turning brownish tomentose; leaf blade asymmetric, ovate, (11-)14-19 cm long, 8–13 cm wide, apex acuminate, base strongly oblique-cordate, margin repand, chartaceous, villous when young, adaxially green, surface bullate, intercostal area densely dotted with blackish-brown and hair-tipped bullae, individual bullae conical, tip reddish, (0.3-)0.8-1.3 cm high, (0.3-)0.8-1.2(-1.5) cm across, abaxially pale green, reddish on veins and bullae region, tomentose on veins. Leaves of juvenile plant with few or no bullae. Inflorescences axillary, dichasial cymes, arising directly from rhizome, branched 3–4 times; peduncle 5–13 cm long, tomentose; bracts and bracteoles caducous, yellowish, bracts narrowly ovate, 1–1.2 cm long, 0.4-0.6 cm wide, boat-shaped, veins reddish, margin fimbriate, bracteoles oblong, ca. 0.3 cm long, 0.1 cm wide. Staminate flower: pedicel ca. 1.5 cm long, tepals 4, outer 2 broadly ovate, 0.9-1.1 cm long, 0.6-1 cm wide, abaxially yellowish-reddish, sparsely setulose, inner 2 elliptic, white, 0.7-1.1 cm long, 0.4 cm wide; androecium actinomorphic, spherical, ca. 0.4 cm across; stamens 65–85; filaments fused at base into a column ca. 0.2 cm long; anthers obovate, 2-locular. Carpellate flower: pedicel 1.5-1.6 cm long, tepals 3, outer 2 suborbicular or broadly ovate, pinkish-white, 0.8-1.1 cm long, 0.7-1.1 cm wide, inner 1 elliptic, white, 0.8-0.9 cm long, 0.3-0.4 cm wide; ovary trigonous-ellipsoid, 1.3-1.4 cm long, 0.4 cm thick (wings excluded), reddish, 3-winged; wings unequal, greenish-yellow, lateral wings narrower, 0.4-0.5 cm tall, abaxial wing crescent-shaped, ca. 0.6 cm tall, 1.5-1.6 cm wide; styles 3, fused at base, yellow or greenish, ca. 0.4 cm long, stigma spirally twisted. Capsule trigonous-ellipsoid, 1–1.5 cm long, 0.2-0.5 cm thick (wings excluded), greenish or reddish when fresh; wings unequal, lateral wings 0.3-0.5 cm tall, abaxial wing crescent-shaped, 0.6-0.9 cm tall. Seeds numerous, brown, ellipsoid, ca. 0.5 mm long, 0.3 mm thick. Somatic chromosome number, 2n=30¹

Accession Data:

Accession # 201800116
Source: Jason Lopez - Univ. Washington
Accession Date: 10-16-2018
Bench: 1313 - NEOA: East Bench NC
- Currently: active - new growth
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 09-16-2021

Classification:

Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
SubClass: eurosid I
Order: Cucurbitales
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Family: Begoniaceae
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This accession has been observed in bloom on:

Year	Jan				Feb				Mar					Apr				May				Jun					Jul				Aug				Sep					Oct				Nov				Dec
2021
2020
2019

References (internal):

EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: China Southeast

References (external):

Ching-I Peng, Hsun-An Yang, Yoshiko Kono, Kuo-Fang Chung, Yu-Song Huang, Wang-Hui Wu and Yan Liu, Novelties in Begonia sect. Coelocentrum: B. longgangensis and B. ferox from limestone areas in Guangxi, China, Botanical StudiesAn International Journal201354:44. Last accessed on Tuesday, October 16, 2018.

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Begonia ferox C.I Peng & Yan Liu

sect. Coelocentrum

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