B. foliosa var. foliosa

"The Fern Leaf Begonia" Description from Smith & Wasshausen "Flora of Ecuador" As B. Poeppigiana in Flora of Peru. by J. Francis Macbride. Chicago, Ill. Field Museum of Natural History, [1941] v.13: pt.4: no.1 (1941): Page 181- 202 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19800 Much-branched shrub or perennial herb, erect, glabrous. Branches slender, spreading. Leaves pinnate-nerved, elliptic, subacute, unequally obtuse at base, 8-18 mm. long, setose-serrate, thin, white-spotted beneath, petioles 1- 2 mm. long, stipules persistent, lanceolate, acuminate, entire except for the setose apex, brown, membranaceous, 2-4 mm. long. Inflorescences axillary, the staminate 2-flowered, the pistillate I-flowered, peduncle very slender, 5-12 mm. long. Bracts minute, persistent. Pedicels 5-9 mm. long. Staminate tepals 4, 4 mm. long, the outer obovate, the inner oblong. Stamens borne on a column, anthers elliptic, the connective produced. Pistillate tepals 5, elliptic, subacute. Styles 3, 2-parted, the stigmatic tissue linear, spiral, continuous, placentae simple. Capsule 6-8 mm. long, the wings unequal, the largest deltoid, acute or obtuse, 7-8 mm. wide. - F.M. Neg. 20823.

• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Shrub-like
• Botanical Section: Lepsia
• Origin: America, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador
• Originator: Kunth in Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp.
• Date of Origin: 1825

Tolerates full sun (in cooler climates) Pests Diseases