Begonia morifolia T. T. Yu

This species is similar to Begonia alveolata but differs by its sharply denticulate leaf margin and abaxially hairy outer tepals.

Herbs. Stems to 40 cm, slender and trailing at base, erect above, villous when young. Leaves cauline; stipules triangular-ovate, 8-10 mm, abaxially villous; petiole 1.5-2.5 cm, densely villous; blade ovate or narrowly ovate, asymmetric, 6-9 × 3.5-4.5 cm, papery, sparsely hispidulous, venation palmate-pinnate, base oblique, cordate, margin sharply denticulate, apex long acuminate. Inflorescences hairy; bracts ovate, 8-9 mm, abaxially pubescent, margin serrate. Staminate flowers: pedicel ca. 1.5 cm; tepals 4(or 5), pink, hairy, outer 2 ovate, ca. 1.5 × 1 cm, abaxially villous, inner 2 narrow, ovate-oblong, ca. 8 × 2 mm; stamens numerous; filaments ca. 1.2 mm, free; anthers elliptic, ca. 1 mm, apex emarginate. Pistillate flowers: tepals 5, hairy, outer 2 broadly ovate, ca. 10 × 8 mm, inner 2 narrow, ovate-oblong, ca. 7 × 3.5 mm; ovary 3-loculed; placentae axile, bilamellate; styles 3; stigmas 2-cleft, spiraled. Capsule pendulous, oblong, ca. 10 × 7 mm, unequally 3-winged. Fl. Oct-Nov, fr. Dec.

Yunnan (Malipo, Xichou).

● Forests, shaded moist environments; 1300-1600 m.

Begonia anceps Irmscher.