Begonia cucullata

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Family:BEGONIACEAE
Species:Begonia cucullata Willd.
Common Name:Clubbed Begonia; Wax Begonia
Habitat:Commonly cultivated. Rare escape. Roadside ditches.
Associated Ecological Communities:**
Growth Habit:Herb
Duration:Perennial
Category:Vascular
USDA Symbol:BECU
Plant Notes:Wax Begonia is an introduced herbaceous perennial in the Begonia family (Begoniaceae). It is native to Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, but is widely cultivated as a warm season annual in the United States. It Alabama it has been found as an escape in the southern third of the state. Wax Begonia occurs along streams, in swamps, on floodplains, and in wet roadside ditches. It is a perennial from a short rhizome. The stems are 1-2 ½ feet in height, branched, green to reddish in color, glabrous to sparsely hairy, and succulent. Leaves are alternate, petiolate, ovate to reniform in outline, with crenate margins. The leaves are glabrous or with a few scattered hairs. The leaves are dark green or reddish above and paler green below. Flowers are produced in axillary cymes. The flowers are white to pinkish in color. Staminate flowers have 4 tepals and 24-33 stamens. The pistillate flowers have 4-5 tepals. The fruit is a winged capsule with many dust-like seed. Wax Begonia is commonly available as a house or bedding plant. It is frost intolerant and often grown as an annual. Plants can be grown from seed or cuttings.—A. Diamond
Taxonomic Notes:**
Status:Not Native
References:**
Specimen: View specimen details in the Alabama Herbarium Consortium Specimen Database

** Not applicable or data not available.

Classification

FamilyBEGONIACEAE - Begonia family
Genus Begonia
Species Begonia cucullata Willd. - Clubbed Begonia; Wax Begonia

Citation

Citation Begonia cucullata Willdenow, Sp. Pl. 4(1): 414. 1805.
Basionym: **
Type: BRAZIL: Without data (holotype: B-W).

** Not applicable or data not available.

Synonyms

SynonymFull CitationBasionymType
Begonia agrial Begonia agrial Rojas, Bull. Acad. Int. Geogr. Bot. 24: 215. 1914. ARGENTINA
Begonia cucullata var. arenosicola Begonia cucullata Willdenow, var. arenosicola (C. de Candolle) L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert, Darwiniana 5: 106. 1941. Begonia subcucullata C. de Candolle, var. arenosicola C. de Candolle 1903.  
Begonia cucullata var. hookeri Begonia cucullata Willdenow, var. hookeri (Sweet) L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert, Darwiniana 5: 104. 1941.Begonia hookeri Sweet 1830. 
Begonia cucullata var. spatulata Begonia cucullata Willdenow, var. spatulata (Loddiges) Golding, Phytologia 50: 350. 1982. Begonia spatulata Loddiges 1818.  
Begonia cucullata var. typica Begonia cucullata Willdenow, var. typica L. B. Smith & B. G. Schubert, Darwiniana 5: 101. 1941, nom. inadmiss.Begonia cucullata Willdenow 1805. 
Begonia cucullifolia Begonia cucullifolia Hasskarl, Hort. Bogor Descr. 311. 1858.  
Begonia cuneata Begonia cuneata Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst. 2: 214. 1843.  
Begonia hookeri Begonia hookeri Sweet, Hort. Brit., ed. 2. 437. 1830.  
Begonia paludicola Begonia paludicola C. de Candolle, Bull. Soc. Bot. Gèneve 6: 125, f. 7. 1914. PARAGUAY
Begonia sellowii Begonia sellowii Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854: 28. 1855.  
Begonia semperflorens var. sellowii Begonia semperflorens Link & Otto, var. sellowii (Klotzsch) Alph. de Candolle, in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1): 342. 1861.Begonia sellowii Klotzsch 1855.  
Begonia semperflorens var. hookeri Begonia semperflorens Link & Otto, var. hookeri (Sweet) Alph. de Candolle, in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4(1): 342. 1861.Begonia hookeri Sweet 1830. 
Begonia spathulata Begonia spathulata Hornemann, Hort. Bot. Hafn., Suppl. 162. 1819, non Loddiges 1818.  
Begonia spatulata Begonia spatulata Loddiges, Bot. Cab. 2: pl. 107. 1818. Cult. in England, without data (holotype: Loddiges, Bot. Cab. 2: pl. 107. 1818).
Begonia subcucullata Begonia subcucullata C. de Candolle, Bull. Herb. Boissier, ser. 2. 3: 404. 1903. PARAGUAY
Begonia subcucullata var. arenosicola Begonia subcucullata C. de Candolle, var. arenosicola C. de Candolle, Bull. Herb. Boissier, ser. 2. 3: 404. 1903. PARAGUAY: Río Apa region, 1901-1902, Hassler 7884 (holotype: G).
Begonia semperflorens Begonia semperflorens Link & Otto, Icon. Pl. Rar. 9, pl. 5. 1828. BRAZIL: Rio Grande do Sul: Porto Alegre, s.d., Sello s.n. (holotype: B).

Specimens and Distribution

This species has been reported in the following counties by the herbaria listed. An overview of the individual specimens are provided in the table that follows. Click on the accession number to view details; click on column headers to sort; choose a county or herbaria to filter the specimen data.

Counties included on distribution map: Conecuh, Houston, Macon

Counties represented by specimen data listed below:

Herbaria represented by specimen data listed below: ALNHS, AMAL, AUA, TROY

Range of years during which specimens were collected: -

Barcode / Accession No. County Coll. Date Collector &
Collection No.		 Herbarium &
Herbarium Name Used		 Image
TROY000051646 Houston 26 Apr 2020 Diamond, Alvin R.
29244		 TROY
Begonia cucullata Willdenow
AUA_ACC_65651 Conecuh 27 May 2006 Diamond, Alvin R.
16438		 AUA
Begonia Cucullata Willd.
AMAL00011850 Conecuh 27 May 2006 Diamond, Alvin R.
16438		 AMAL
Begonia cucullata Willdenow
TROY000003093 Conecuh 27 May 2006 Diamond, Alvin R.
16438		 TROY
Begonia cucullata Willd.
ALNHS00006160 Macon 24 Oct 2018 Barger, T. Wayne
SP#4240		 ALNHS
Begonia cucullata Willd.
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