Begonia hirtella |
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Brazilian begonia |
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Habit | Plants annual, ± densely brownish-villous (hairs multicellular). |
Stems | 8–15[–90] cm. |
Leaves | stipules lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 5–10 × 2–4 mm; petiole 12–32 mm, ± densely villous; blade strongly asymmetric, ± ovate to ± cordate, (12–)15–90 × (11–)22–70 mm, base rounded to shallowly cordate on shorter side, rounded to cordate on longer one, margins shallowly or not lobed, crenate, ciliate, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces appressed-pilose. |
Peduncles | 20–22 mm (in fruit); bracts linear to ovate. |
Flowers | pinkish; staminate: tepals 2–4, outer 2 suborbiculate, 2–4 mm, inner 0–2, lanceolate, 4 mm; stamens 6–9[–22]; pistillate: tepals 5, oblong to obovate, 2 mm. |
Capsules | 5–10 × 4–6 mm, larger wings deltate-rounded, 6–10 mm wide, smaller 2–5 mm wide. |
Begonia hirtella |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Around solution holes of rockland hummocks, greenhouse weeds |
Elevation | 0–10 m (0–0 ft) |
Distribution |
FL; South America; West Indies [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | Begonia hirtella is naturalized only in Miami-Dade County; it is also a weed in greenhouses. A specimen similar to B. hirtella, collected in Palm Beach County on a floating, rotting log in a cypress strand (Bradley and Woodmansee 1239, FTG), is glabrous and cannot be determined in its vegetative condition at the present time; it is unknown whether it has persisted. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 63. |
Parent taxa | Begoniaceae > Begonia |
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Name authority | Link: Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 2: 396. (1822) |
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