Media item
- Registration number
- WAG.1162827
- Scientific name
- Begonia komoensis Irmsch.
- Source
- Naturalis - Botany catalogues
- License
- CC0 1.0
- Institution
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center
- Collection name
- Botany
- Description
- Shrubby epiphyte on huge forest tree, c. 30 m above ground level together with Rhipsalis (No.11632) and Zingiberaceae (no.11630). Lower parts of stem really woody. Leaves fleshy, above glossy green with red nervation, beneath much paler green almost silvery-green and with prominent conspicuous red nervation.Outer perianth segments purplish-white, outside red with white edge inside. Inner two segments much smaller, red. Styles predominantly 4, stigmas usually entire, slightly spreading.
- Locality
- Africa; Gabon; Ngounié; Massif de Koumounabwali, c. 34 km along the Bondola river, counting from the road Lambaréné-Fougamou in a SW direction.
- Collecting start date
- 1995-12-15