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Begonia glabra

Botanic Family

Begoniaceae

Author

Aublet

Conservation Status

Least concern

Common Names

• The Large Climbing Sorrel

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Venezuela
• Venezuelan Antilles

Natural Habitats

• Tropical rainforest
• cloud forest
• cut over forest
• secondary vegetation
• riverside
• montane shrubland
• forest edge

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar (Belize) Jan
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep (Bolivia) Dec (Jamaica)

Fruiting Times

• May
• Jun (Belize) Jan
• Apr
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep (Bolivia)

Root climbing hemi-epiphyte to 4m, fibrous roots with glabrous scandent stems. Waxy glabrous leaves to 200mm x 150mm, shallowly toothed, sparsely serrate. Many-flowered axillary cymes with minute mucronate bracts to 1.5mm long. Pink to white flowers with bracteoles to 2mm long, anthers yellow, 4 staminate tepals to 6mm long, white petals to 3mm long, 5 pistillate flowers with 5 lobes, pistillate white tepals to 6mm long. Capsule to 10mm x 6mm with largest wing to 14mm wide, other 2 very narrow.

Further References

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