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A NEW SECTION OF BEGONIA (BEGONIACEAE) FROM WEST CENTRAL AFRICA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2003

J. J. F. E. DE WILDE  and
V. PLANA
J. J. F. E. DE WILDE
Affiliation:
Nationaal Herbarium, Wageningen University branch, Herbarium Vadense, Gen. Foulkesweg 37, 6703 BL Wageningen, The Netherlands
V. PLANA
Affiliation:
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, UK
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Abstract

Previous analyses of macromorphological and molecular data on the continental African species Begonia iucunda (Begoniaceae) suggest that it occupies an isolated phylogenetic position within a clade consisting otherwise of species in sections Cristasemen, Filicibegonia, Loasibegonia and Scutobegonia. Accordingly, the new monotypic section Chasmophila is here described. Its taxonomic position and relationship to other African sections are discussed and data on its distribution and ecology are presented.

Keywords

AfricaChasmophilataxonomy
Type
Research Article
Information
Edinburgh Journal of Botany , Volume 60 , Issue 2 , September 2003 , pp. 121 - 130
Copyright
2003, Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

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