Begonia lobbii (Begonia lobbii)
Description
Lobbii Begonia is a species of plant of the family of the Begoniaceae . This begonia comes from Indonesia . This species is part of the Reichenheimia section . It was described in 1858 by Justus Carl Hasskarl (1811-1894) under thehomotypic synonym Mitscherlichia lobbii 2 , then recombined in the genus Begonia in 1864 by Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle (1806-1893). The specific epithet lobbii means "de Lobb", in honor of the brothers William Lobb and Thomas Lobb , plant collectors for the English horticulture company Veitch With 1,839 species, Begonia is the fifth-largest angiosperm genus.The species are terrestrial (sometimes epiphytic) herbs or undershrubs, and occur in subtropical and tropical moist climates, in South and Central America, Africa, and southern Asia. Terrestrial species in the wild are commonly upright-stemmed, rhizomatous, or tuberous. The plants are monoecious, with unisexual male and female flowers occurring separately on the same plant; the male contains numerous stamens, and the female has a large inferior ovary and two to four branched or twisted stigmas. In most species, the fruit is a winged capsule containing numerous minute seeds, although baccate fruits are also known. The leaves, which are often large and variously marked or variegated, are usually asymmetric (unequal-sided).
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Cucurbitales
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Family: Begoniaceae
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Genus: Begonia
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