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TWO NEW SPECIES OF BEGONIA (BEGONIACEAE) FROM CENTRAL SULAWESI, INDONESIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2009

D. C. Thomas
Affiliation:
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, Scotland, UK. E-mail: d.thomas@rbge.ac.uk
W. H. Ardi
Affiliation:
Center for Plant Conservation, Bogor Botanic Garden, Jl. Ir. H. Juanda No. 13, Bogor 16003, Indonesia. E-mail: wisnu.handoyo.ardi@lipi.go.id
M. Hughes
Affiliation:
Singapore Botanic Gardens, 1 Cluny Road, Singapore 259569. E-mail: mark_hughes@nparks.gov.sg
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Abstract

Two new species of Begonia (Begoniaceae), Begonia ozotothrix and Begonia hekensis, are described from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Both species belong to Begonia section Petermannia. Begonia ozotothrix is unusual amongst Asian Begonia in having branched trichomes on the stems, petioles and the abaxial lamina surfaces, and it is unusual amongst species of Begonia section Petermannia in having extremely compressed cymose-subumbellate male partial inflorescences.

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Copyright © Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 2009

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