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Begonia (sect. Microtuberosa) Moonlight & Tebbitt
Creators
- 1. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20 A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH 3 5 LR, Scotland, UK. & Botany Department, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
- 2. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá D. C., Colombia.
- 3. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20 A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH 3 5 LR, Scotland, UK.
- 4. Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional Agraria-La Molina, Lima 12, Peru.
Description
Begonia sect. Microtuberosa Moonlight & Tebbitt
European Journal of Taxonomy 281: 4 (Moonlight et al. 2017a).
– Type: holotype: Begonia elachista Moonlight & Tebbitt.
Notes
This is a monotypic section and the only endemic section of Begonia to Peru. It was erected by Moonlight & Tebbitt (2017a) based upon molecular evidence, which demonstrated that B. elachista was distantly related from all other tuberous Andean Begonia species and allied with two sections endemic to the Atlantic Rainforests of eastern South America. It is best recognised by its much smaller size (<3 cm tall vs> 15 cm tall) and fewer stamens (two or four vs> 5) than all other tuberous Andean begonias.
Notes
Published as part of Moonlight, Peter. W., Jara-Muñoz, Orlando A., Purvis, David A., Delves, Jay, Allen, Josh P. & Reynel, Carlos, 2023, The genus Begonia (Begoniaceae) in Peru, pp. 1-334 in European Journal of Taxonomy 881 on page 245, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.881.2175, http://zenodo.org/record/8178280
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Begoniaceae
- Genus
- Begonia
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Order
- Cucurbitales
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Scientific name authorship
- Moonlight & Tebbitt
- Taxon rank
- section
References
- Moonlight P. W., Reynel C. & Tebbitt M. C. 2017 a. Begonia elachista Moonlight & Tebbitt sp. nov., an enigmatic new species and a new section of Begonia (Begoniaceae) from Peru. European Journal of Taxonomy 281: 1 - 13. https: // doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2017.281