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Issue: Vol. 429 No. 4: 22 January 2020
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-01-22
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.429.4.6
Page range: 297–300
Abstract views: 22
PDF downloaded: 1

Begonia naga, a synonym of B. manhaoensis (Begoniaceae)

Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
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AUNG AUNG

1 Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China
3 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 

Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
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WEN-HONG CHEN

1 Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China
2 Karst Conservation Initiative of Yunnan, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
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YU-MIN SHUI

1 Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China
2 Karst Conservation Initiative of Yunnan, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
Begonia China India Synonym Taxonomy

Abstract

Examination of herbaria specimens and living plants from several populations reveals that the diagnostic characteristics (grooved petioles, acute connectives and fruit wings extremely leaning to pedicles) are exactly consistent between Begonia naga from India and Begonia manhaoensis in China.  Therefore, B. naga is treated as a synonym of B. manhaoensis.