Abstract
Two new species of Begonia section Petermannia from Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines are described and illustrated: Begonia amamampang and Begonia turugsoy. Begonia parvilimba was also rediscovered and an updated description is provided. All morphological characters and measurements were observed in the wild from living plants. This brings the record to a total of 16 Begonia species under this section found in the region of Zamboanga Peninsula making Zamboanga a center of diversity of section Petermannia in the Philippines. Notes on their ecology, distribution map and proposed conservation assessment are provided.
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Merrill, E.D. (1912) New or Noteworthy Philippine Plants, IX. Philippine Journal of Science 7: 308–310.
Merrill, E.D. (1925) Additions to our knowledge of Philippine flora, I. The Philippine Journal of Science 26 (4): 478–481
Moonlight, P.W., Ardi, W.H., Padilla, L.A., Chung, K., Fuller, D., Girmansyah, D., … Hughes, M. (2018) Dividing and conquering the fastest-growing genus: Towards a natural sectional classification of the mega-diverse genus Begonia (Begoniaceae). Taxon 67 (2): 267–323. https://doi.org/10.12705/672.3
Nakamura, K., Rubite, R.R., Kono, Y., Macabasco, J.V., Talaña, A.D., Alejandro, G.J.D., Ho, M-J., Yang, H-A., Chung K-F. & Peng, C.I. (2021) Begonia × dinglensis, a natural hybrid of Philippine Begonia section Baryandra, as evidenced by morphological, phylogenetic and cytological data. Phytotaxa 494: 151–164. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.494.1.12
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