Family

Begoniaceae 秋海棠科

Supplementary information

Perennial small herb, with globose tuberous root, 7-8mm in diameter, with numerous fibrous root. Basal lobes of leaves more or less overlapped, sparsely or densely covered with small coarse hairs on adaxial surface, usually purplish and strigose along veins on abaxial surface. Margin irregularly diserrate, sometimes notching. Flowers slightly scented. Cymes/ dichasium twice or thrice branched, primary branchlets 2.5-4 cm, secondary brachlets 7-13 cm.  Peduncles slender. Bracteoles membranous. Male flowers: perianth segments 4, outer 2 ovate, 6 –12 mm, inner 2 obovate-oblong; stamen numerous. Female flowers: smaller, perianth-segments 3, two larger, half-orbicular, ca. 3 mm, another one smaller and narrower, oblong; ovary 3-locular. Capsule with 3 unequal wings.

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Acknowledgement

Wu Jieh Yee Charitable Foundation Native Plant Resources and Database in Hong Kong

References

1. Flora of Hong Kong: Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

2. Flora of Shenzhen: China Forestry Publishing House

3. Flora of China. Vol 9 (2003): Science Press, Beijing Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis

4. Flora Republicae Popularis Sinicae (中國植物志): Science Press, Beijing