Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 482 No. 3: 3 February 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-02-03
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.482.3.4
Page range: 261–267
Abstract views: 19
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species and a new record of Begonia (sect. Platycentrum, Begoniaceae) from northeastern India

Department of Botany, University of Calicut, Malappuaram, Kerala 673 635, India
Department of Botany, University of Calicut, Malappuaram, Kerala 673 635, India
Department of Botany, University of Calicut, Malappuaram, Kerala 673 635, India
Post Graduate and Research Department of Botany, Sree Neelakanta Govt. Sanskrit College Pattambi, Kerala 679306, India
Mizoram Murlen new record new species Taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

A new species of Begonia, Begonia murlenensis (sect. Platycentrum) is described and illustrated from northeastern India. The new species is compared with B. manhaoensis. Diagnostic characters are provided along with a distribution map and notes on its habitat and phenology. Begonia zhongyangiana as a new record in India is also presented here along with a distribution map.