CHR 605468 B – Begonia 'Gigantea Rosea'
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 605468 B
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
13 August 2009
Database record updated:
11 August 2017
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Begonia 'Gigantea Rosea'
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Begonia 'Gigantea Rosea'
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Violales
Family:
Begoniaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Note:
As labelled [in Christchurch Botanic Garden]
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
[Unknown]
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Country:
Unknown
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Christchurch Botanic Gardens
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.530379 172.620934
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, Botanic Gardens
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 51/05
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
23 Aug 2005
Start date:
2005-08-23
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Habitat:
Cultivated in glasshouse.
Notes:
Shrub-like plant with erect, green terete stems; leaves large but rather pale (? plant virus-infected); lamina deep, shining, uniformly green above, a little paler beneath with base red. Flowers coral red when young; female flowers soon becoming pinkish red. Tepals of female flowers 1.4-1.8 x 1-1.7 cm, broad obovate to suborbicular, subequal; ovary wings very unequal, largest c. 1.3 x 1.5 cm, asymmetric, other 2 wings much smaller and less asymmetric; stigmas 3, twisted & branched. Tepals of male flowers 0.8-1.2 x 0.9-1.3 cm, broadly ovate-cordate, deep red.
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to B
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