TWO NEW SPECIES OF BEGONIA (BEGONIACEAE) FROM CENTRAL SULAWESI, INDONESIA

Authors

  • D. C. Thomas
  • W. H. Ardi
  • M. Hughes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960428609005320

Keywords:

Begonia section Petermannia, inflorescence, new species, Sulawesi, trichome

Abstract

Two new species of Begonia (Begoniaceae), Begonia ozotothrix and Begonia hekensis, are described from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Both species belong to Begonia section Petermannia. Begonia ozotothrix is unusual amongst Asian Begonia in having branched trichomes on the stems, petioles and the abaxial lamina surfaces, and it is unusual amongst species of Begonia section Petermannia in having extremely compressed cymose-subumbellate male partial inflorescences.

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Published

2009-03-06

Issue

Vol. 66 No. 1 (2009)

Section

Original Research Articles

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