Media item
- Registration number
- WAG.1162866
- Scientific name
- Begonia komoensis Irmsch.
- Source
- Naturalis - Botany catalogues
- License
- CC0 1.0
- Institution
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center
- Collection name
- Botany
- Description
- Epiphyte on fallen rotten tree. Stems woody, up to 1.20 m long.Fruits sausage-shaped, broadest near the blunt apex, pale brown-red with conspicuous pale greenish-white dots, up to 40 x 5 mm, very slightly curved, initially opening with a single lateral longitudinal slit which starts near the base and exposes the orange yellow seed-bearing placenta-tissue. Fruiting peduncles dark red, 20 to 25 mm long.
- Locality
- Africa; Gabon; Ogooué-Maritime; Rabi 12.
- Collecting start date
- 1989-11-30