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Begonia hirtella Link

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Jalan Raya Jakarta-Bogor Km 46, Cibinong, Kabupaten Bogor, Jawa Barat 16911, Indonesia. E-mail: wisn 005 @ brin. go. id.
  • 2. Research and Conservation, Singapore Botanic Gardens, National Parks Board, 1 Cluny Road, Singapore 259569.

Description

22. Begonia hirtella Link [§ Ephemera], Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 2: 396 (1822).

– Type: Brazilia, Sellow F. 2192 (neotype B [B100243031], designated by Kollmann [2020]; isoneotypes B [2 sheets]).

Additional literature. Kiew (2005) [description, line drawing and photographic plate]; Girmansyah (2014) [distribution map]; Kollmann (2020) [lectotypification].

Distribution. Native to South America (Bolivia, South Brazil, Southeast Brazil, Colombia, Jamaica, Peru, Venezuela). Naturalised in many areas in Asia, including Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia (Bali, Java, Sulawesi, Sumatra), as well as in Australia. In Sulawesi, recorded from the North and West Provinces.

Habitat. This species is often found naturalised in strongly disturbed vegetation, including forest borders, home gardens, plantations, and other open areas.

Proposed IUCN conservation category. Least Concern (LC). Begonia hirtella is an introduced species from the Neotropics. The species has been naturalised in many regions in Indonesia.

Additional specimens examined. INDONESIA. Sulawesi. Northern arm of Sulawesi. Eastern North Sulawesi: Kali Waterfall, 31 i 2019, W.H. Ardi WI394 (BO); Tomohon, Masarang, 2 ii 2019, W.H. Ardi WI396 (BO); Minahasa, Tumpaan–Kongkoan Road divide, 5 ii 2019, W.H. Ardi WI411 (BO).

West Sulawesi Province: Mamasa, Gunung Mambulilin, 9 v 2009, D.C. Thomas & W.H. Ardi DCT09-124 (BO).

Notes

Published as part of Ardi, W. H. & Thomas, D. C., 2022, SYNOPSIS OF BEGONIA (BEGONIACEAE) FROM THE NORTHERN ARM OF SULAWESI AND SANGIHE ISLAND, INDONESIA, INCLUDING THREE NEW SPECIES, pp. 1-50 in Edinburgh Journal of Botany 79 (405) on page 47, DOI: 10.24823/EJB.2022.405, http://zenodo.org/record/10524193

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FFFE04FF8DFFF9FF9410F79C23F975

Is part of
Journal article: 10.24823/EJB.2022.405 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/10524193 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC6867CFFA3FFD7FFED133F9D07FFE7 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03FFFE04FF8DFFF9FF9410F79C23F975 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/220770843 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/285561/taxon/03FFFE04FF8DFFF9FF9410F79C23F975.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
B , BO
Material sample ID
B100243031
Event date
2009-05-09 , 2019-01-31 , 2019-02-02 , 2019-02-05
Verbatim event date
2009-05-09 , 2019-01-31 , 2019-02-02 , 2019-02-05
Scientific name authorship
Link
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Cucurbitales
Family
Begoniaceae
Genus
Begonia
Species
hirtella
Taxon rank
species
Type status
isoneotype , neotype

References

  • Kiew R. 2005. Begonia of Peninsula Malaysia. Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications (Borneo). 308 pp.
  • Girmansyah D. 2014. Begonia hirtella Link di Jawa. Berita Biologi. 13 (3): 343 - 347.