Taxon:
Begonia ulmifolia Willd.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 4(1):418. 1805
Verified:
11/13/2002
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980-. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. Note: introduced
- Doorenbos, J. et al. 1998. The sections of Begonia. Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap. 98-2:257.
- Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage
- Golding, J. & D. C. Wasshausen. 2002. Begoniaceae, edition 2. Part 1: annotated species list. Part II: illustrated key, abridgement and supplement. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 43:153.
- Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
- Smith, L. B. et al. 1986. Begoniaceae. Part I: Illustrated key. Part II: Annotated species list. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 60:244. URL: http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/Botany/
- Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995-. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana. Note: Missouri Botanical Garden & Timber Press
- Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986-2000. European garden flora.
Common names
English
elm-leaf begonia –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Caribbean | Trinidad and Tobago | Trinidad | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | French Guiana | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Guyana | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Suriname | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Venezuela | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
Native
Southern America
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CARIBBEAN:
Trinidad and Tobago [Trinidad]
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NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
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BRAZIL:
Brazil
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Environmental | ornamental | | Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening |
Environmental | ornamental | | Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage |