Taxon:
Begonia cucullata Willd.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 4(1):414. 1805
Verified:
11/13/2002
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) www.skud.info
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- Cabrera, A. L., ed. 1965-1970. Flora de la provincia de Buenos Aires.
- Doorenbos, J. et al. 1998. The sections of Begonia. Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap. 98-2:234.
- Dubs, B. 1998. Prodromus florae matogrossensis. Botany of Mato Grosso, series B, no. 3.
- Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage
- Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource). URL: http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/
- Frohlich, D. & A. Lau. 2014. New plant records for the Hawaiian Islands 2012–2013. Bishop Mus. Occas. Pap. 115:8.
- 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. 43:37.
- Golding, J. 1982. Begonia nomenclature notes, 6. Begonia cucullata Willdenow and included species. Phytologia 50:330-356. URL: http://www.phytologia.org/
- Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
- Hvoslef-Eide, A. K. & C. Munster. 2007. Chapter 9. Begonia. History & breeding. Flower breeding and genetics. Issues, challenges and opportunities for the 21st Century. Springer., Dordrecht. 241-275. Note: as Begonia semperflorens
- Jardín Botánico Nacional. 1998-. Flora de la República de Cuba
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- Lim, T. K. 2014. Begonia cucullata var. cucullata. Edible medicinal and non-medicinal plants. Six volumes 7:551-555. Note: Springer Science+Business Media B
- Reitz, R., ed. 1965-. Flora ilustrada catarinense. Note: with three varieties
- Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996, 1999. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74.
Common names
English
wax begonia – Portuguese
begônia-do-brejo – Spanish
flor de nácar – Swedish
pärlemorbegonia –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Bahia | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Espírito Santo | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Goiás | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Mato Grosso do Sul | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Paraná | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Rio Grande do Sul | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | Santa Catarina | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Buenos Aires | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Chaco | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Corrientes | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Entre Ríos | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Formosa | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Jujuy | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Misiones | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Salta | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Santa Fe | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Argentina | Tucumán | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Paraguay | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Southern South America | Uruguay | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | natzd. elsewhere in tropics |
4 | Naturalized | Pacific | North-Central Pacific | United States | Hawaii | |
Native
Southern America
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BRAZIL:
Brazil [Bahia, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina]
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SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Argentina [Buenos Aires, Chaco, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Formosa, Jujuy, Misiones, Salta, Santa Fe, Tucumán], Paraguay, Uruguay
Cultivated
(also cult.)
Naturalized
Pacific
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NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC:
United States [Hawaii]
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Environmental | ornamental | | Reitz, R., ed. 1965-. Flora ilustrada catarinense. Note: with three varieties |
Environmental | ornamental | | Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening |
Human food | potential as vegetable | | Lim, T. K. 2014. Begonia cucullata var. cucullata. Edible medicinal and non-medicinal plants. Six volumes 7:551-555. Note: this review mentions this taxon as a stoloniferous herb native to South America but invasive in Hawaii and La Reunion; all parts can be consumed either fresh or cooked; as an ornamental it has single or double number of sepaloid and petaloid appendages |