Begonia falcifolia Hook.f.
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https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.881.2175 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8178333 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B26B4B-FE95-FEC9-FDA5-FBA0AF32EC6F |
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Felipe |
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Begonia falcifolia Hook.f. |
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Begonia falcifolia Hook.f. View in CoL
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 94: t. 5707 ( Hooker 1868).
– Type: hort. Kew; coll. unknown s.n.; holotype: K [K000739972].
Brako & Zarucchi (1993: 192); León & Monsalve (2006: 166).
Notes
This species was described from plants grown in the glasshouses of Kew Gardens, which J.D. Hooker stated in the protologue were collected in Peru by Pearce and given to Kew by Veitch Nurseries ( Hooker 1868). The illustration and type specimen are however of a species closely allied to B. malabarica Lam. , a species from southern India and Sri Lanka. Plant hunters from both Kew Gardens and Veitch Nurseries had collected in this area by this date, so it seems likely this is an Indian species whose providence was confused in either institution.
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