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|accepted_name=Begonia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 1056. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 475. 1754.
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Begoniaceae;Begonia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Begoniaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Begonia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Michel Bégon, 1638 – 1710 French governor of Haiti and patron of botany
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 61
|treatment_page=page 62
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>sometimes rhizomatous [sometimes tuberous]. <b>Stems</b> erect or ascending [climbing], reddish [green or brown], simple or branched. <b>Cymes</b> [1–]few[–many]-flowered. <b>Capsules</b> [2–]3[–5+]-locular. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;s Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;pantropical.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 1400 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Begonia</i> is one of the larger herbaceous pantropical genera. Begonias are widely cultivated as ornamental plants.</p><!--
--><p><i>Begonia cucullata</i> is usually more robust than <i>B. hirtella</i>. The number of flowers per cyme was impossible to establish from the available herbarium specimens, because staminate flowers fall early. In general, <i>B. cucullata</i> appears to have more flowers than <i>B. hirtella</i>. Flowers of <i>Begonia</i> often are described as having tepals, as done here; the staminate flowers sometimes may be described as having sepals and petals, as is the case for the sister genus Hillebrandia. Capsules were measured excluding the wings.</p>
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==Key==
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|1
|Perennials, usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely hairy; leaf blades asymmetric, ovate to ± reniform, base cuneate on shorter side, usually rounded on longer one1. Begonia cucullata
|[[#key-0-1| > 1]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Annuals, ± densely brownish-villous; leaf blades strongly asymmetric, ± ovate to ± cordate, base rounded to shallowly cordate on shorter side, rounded to cordate on longer one.
|[[Begonia hirtella|Begonia hirtella]]
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name=Begonia
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Begoniaceae
|distribution=Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;s Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;pantropical.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Begonia
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