Begonia convolvulacea
Morning-glory begonia


Begonia convolvulacea

Família/Family: Begoniaceae

Grupo/Group: Dicotiledónea/Dicotyledon.

Forma de vida/Life form: Hierba/Herb

Duración de vida/Lifespan: Perenne/Perennial.

Sustrato/Substrate: Terrestre/Terrestrial.

Distribución nativa/Native range: Nativa de Sudamérica (Brasil); cultivada y algunas veces naturalizada en otras regiones. / Native to South America (Brazil); cultivated and sometimes naturalized elsewhere.

Mapa de ubicaciones / Map of locations

Notas/Notes: A voucher of a recent naturalized population in Puerto Rico is apparently needed.


ESTATUS EN LA ISLA DE PUERTO RICO/STATUS ON THE ISLAND OF PUERTO RICO
Presencia/Occurence: Presente/Present.

Origen/Origin: No nativo, naturalizado/Not native, naturalized.

Historia y distribución/History and distribution: Cited by Liogier & Martorell (1982), Liogier (1994 [III: 303]), and Liogier & Martorell (2000) as cultivated and naturalized in the Aibonito-Naranjito area, but excluded as only under cultivation by Axelrod (2011). However, cited as naturalized in Puerto Rico in the Flora of the West Indies (Acevedo-Rodríguez & Strong 2015).

TAXONOMÍA/TAXONOMY
Nombre científico con autores/Scientific name with authors: Begonia convolvulacea (Klotsch) A.DC.





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