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|accepted_name=Begonia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 1056. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 475. 1754.
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Begoniaceae;Begonia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Begoniaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Begonia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Michel Bégon, 1638 – 1710 French governor of Haiti and patron of botany
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 61
|treatment_page=page 62
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism architecture;whole_organism growth form"><b>Plants </b>sometimes rhizomatous [sometimes tuberous].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation;stem orientation;stem coloration;stem architecture;stem architecture"><b>Stems </b>erect or ascending [climbing], reddish [green or brown], simple or branched.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="cyme quantity;cyme architecture"><b>Cymes </b>[1–] few [–many] -flowered.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties=""><b>Capsules </b>[2–] 3 [–5+] -locular.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="capsule architecture or structure in adjective form;x chromosome quantity">x = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;s Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;pantropical
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 1400 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Begonia is one of the larger herbaceous pantropical genera. Begonias are widely cultivated as ornamental plants.</p><!--
--><p>Begonia cucullata is usually more robust than B. hirtella. The number of flowers per cyme was impossible to establish from the available herbarium specimens, because staminate flowers fall early. In general, B. cucullata appears to have more flowers than B. hirtella. Flowers of Begonia often are described as having tepals, as done here; the staminate flowers sometimes may be described as having sepals and petals, as is the case for the sister genus Hillebrandia. Capsules were measured excluding the wings.</p>
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Perennials, usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely hairy; leaf blades asymmetric, ovate to ± reniform, base cuneate on shorter side, usually rounded on longer one1. Begonia cucullata
|[[#key-0-1| > 1]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Annuals, ± densely brownish-villous; leaf blades strongly asymmetric, ± ovate to ± cordate, base rounded to shallowly cordate on shorter side, rounded to cordate on longer one.
|[[Begonia hirtella|Begonia hirtella]]
|}
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name=Begonia
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Begoniaceae
|distribution=Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;s Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;pantropical
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V6/V6_99.xml
|genus=Begonia
|capsule architecture or structure in adjective form=[2-]3[-5+]-locular
|cyme architecture=few-flowered
|cyme quantity=[1
|stem architecture=branched;simple
|stem coloration=reddish
|stem orientation=ascending;erect
|whole_organism architecture=rhizomatous
|whole_organism growth form=plant
|x chromosome quantity=9
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