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Begonia rutilans (Begonia rutilans)

Description

Begonia rutilans is a sort of plants of the family of the Begoniaceae . This begonia is native to Brazil . The species is part of the section Pritzelia . It was described in 1855 under the basionymm of Nephromischus rutilans by Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805-1860), then recombined in the genus Begonia in 1864 by Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle (1806-1893). The specific epithet rutilans means "reddish" 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

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Cucurbitales

            • Family: Begoniaceae

              • Genus: Begonia