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Brazilian begonia

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

Phenology Flowering spring.
Habitat Around solution holes of rockland hummocks, greenhouse weeds
Elevation 0–10 m (0–0 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; South America; West Indies [Introduced in North America]
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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
Sibling taxa
B. cucullata
Name authority Link: Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 2: 396. (1822)
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