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Begoniaceae
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Monoecious herbs or subshrubs, usually fleshy. Leaves alternate, simple, often asymmetric. Stipules present. Flowers ± zygomorphic, in terminal axillary cymes; sepals and petals not distinguished (and hence referred to as tepals). Male flowers: tepals 2-5; stamens numerous; female flowers: tepals 2-5(-9), ovary inferior, usually angled or winged; styles 2-6. Fruit a capsule or berry.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:424
Specimens with Sequences:718
Specimens with Barcodes:415
Species:141
Species With Barcodes:122
Public Records:214
Public Species:108
Public BINs:0
Begoniaceae is a family of flowering plants with about 1400 species occurring in the subtropics and tropics of both the New World and Old World.[2] All but one of the species are in the genus Begonia. The only other genus in the family, Hillebrandia, is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands and has a single species.[3] Phylogenetic work supports Hillebrandia as the sister taxon to the rest of the family.[3] The genus Symbegonia was reduced to a section of Begonia in 2003, as molecular phylogenies had shown it to be derived from within that genus.[4] Members of the genus Begonia are well-known and popular houseplants.
References[edit]
- ^ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x.
- ^ Laura Lowe Forrest, Mark Hughes & Peter M. Hollingsworth (2005). "A phylogeny of Begonia using nuclear ribosomal sequence data and morphological characters". Systematic Botany 30 (3): 671–682. doi:10.1600/0363644054782297.
- ^ a b Wendy L. Clement, Mark C. Tebbitt, Laura L. Forrest, Jaime E. Blair, Luc Brouillet, Torsten Eriksson & Susan M. Swensen (2004). "Phylogenetic position and biogeography of Hillebrandia sandwicensis (Begoniaceae): a rare Hawaiian relict". American Journal of Botany 91 (6): 905–917. doi:10.3732/ajb.91.6.905. PMID 21653447.
- ^ L. L. Forrest & P. M. Hollingsworth (2003). "A recircumscription of Begonia based on nuclear ribosomal sequences". Plant Systematics and Evolution 241 (3–4): 193–211. doi:10.1007/s00606-002-0033-y.
Further reading[edit]
- Vanessa Plana (2003). "Phylogenetic relationships of the Afro-Malagasy members of the large genus Begonia inferred from trnL intron sequences". Systematic Botany 28 (4): 693–704. doi:10.1043/02-56.1.
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