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Begonia fischeri

Botanic Family

Begoniaceae

Author

Schrank

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

• Pava Chaqui

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Bolivia
• Bahia
• Distrito Federale
• Minas Gerais
• Paraná
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo
• Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Lake margins
• inundated areas
• palm forest
• streamside
• forest
• marshes
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Apr
• Jul
• Aug
• Nov

Epiphytic succulent sometimes scandent pilose to glabrous herb with a red stem. Crenate-serrate leaves to 90mm x 70mm, glabrous above, hairy beneath. Few-flowered axillary cymes with fimbriate bracts to 4mm long, bracteoles 4mm long below female flowers. Pink or white flowers 10mm long, 2 male sepals to 8mm diameter, white petals to 5mm long, 4 staminate tepals, outer tepal to 8mm long, inner ones smaller, female flowers with 5 white petals to 4mm long, 5 pistillate tepals to 4mm long. Glabrous capsule 20mm x 6mm, 3 wings, largest to 23mm wide, other 2 narrower.

Further References

• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Kew
• SAFIO
• Standley