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Subkey 2-3


Subkey 4


Subkey 5


Subkey 6


Subkey 7-12


Subkey 14


Subkey 15-21


Subkey 22-24


Subkey 25


Subkey 26


Subkey 27-28


Subkey 29-30


Subkey 31-32


Subkey 33-34


Pictorial Key to Selected Begonia species
Subkey 25

2-2. Blades basifixed.
    4-2. Blades shallowly lobed to entire (entire, subentire, or lobed).
       7-2. Blades oblique or transverse with the midnerve making a distinct angle with the petiole.
             22-2. Leaves separated by distinct internodes
                25-1. Stems repent or pendent
                   26-1. Staminate tepals 2


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25;1-1. American species alphabetically listed, A to M
25;1-2. American species alphabetically listed, N to Z, Asian,and African species


American

B. pinetorum

Plant and Pictures of Ronit Band, July 2007.

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[22;6-1 ]
Photos of P. McMillian

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B. plebeja

[22;15-1* / 22;20-2* / 22;28-1* / 22;30-2* / 25-37-2 / ]

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B. plebeja (left) and u434 (right)

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B. pustulata

[22;50-1 / 32;66-1]

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B. sericoneura

[22;66-1 / 24;58-1 / 24;110 / 25;60-2 / 32;21-2 ]

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B. sericoneura (formerly called B. hypolipara)

[7:12-2]

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B. sericoneura (sometimes called B. pilifera)

[ --- ]

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B. sericoneura


Photo of P. McMillian

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B. soli-mutata

[9;5-1a ]

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B. sousae


[25;56-1a]

Photos of P. McMillian

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B. stigmosa


[22;49-1* / 22;54-1 ]
Photos of P. McMillian

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B. strigillosa

[22;42-1 / 22;58-2 / 25;45-1 ]

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peponifolia (is barkeri) [ --- ]
sousae [ 25;56-1a ]
tenuipila (is plebeja) [ --- ]
tenuipila var. kennedyi (is plebeja) [ --- ]
violifolia [ 25;22-1 25;48-1 ]


African

Species found but not pictured.

ampla [ 25;5-1 25;23-1 28;8-1 28;27-1 28;87-1 ]


Asia

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B. versicolor

[25;57-1 ]