Begonia tessaricarpa C.B.Clarke (1879:636)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1862 (Nayar & Sastry, 1990:82); 1890 (Ambrish & Amadudin, 2006)
Rediscovered (Ambrish & Amadudin, 2006) in 2004 or 2005
Distribution
Upper Subansiri district, Arunachal Pradesh, India
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Clarke C. B. (1879). Begoniaceae. In: Hooker J. D. (ed.) Flora of British India 2: 636-656. London.
Other references:
Ambrish, K. and Amadudin, M. (2006). Rediscovery of an endemic and endangered plant (B. tessaricarpa) from Arunachal-Pradesh, India, after a century. Current Science 91(8): 997-998.
Camfield, Rebecca and Hughes, Mark. (2018). A revision and one new species of Begonia L. (Begoniaceae, Cucurbitales) in Northeast India. European Journal of Taxonomy 396: 1-116. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.396
Clarke, C. B. (1881). On Indian Begonias. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 18: 114-122, pl. 1-3.
Dash, S. S. (2010). Native species of Begonia L. (Begoniaceae) in Arunachal-Pradesh-diversity and distribution. Bulletin of Arunachal Forest Research 26: 29-43.
Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
Mao, A. A. and Dash, S. S. (2020). Flowering Plants of India an Annotated Checklist (Dicotyledons) 1: 1-970. Botanical Survey of India.
Morris, R. (2009). Begonia tessaricarpa - a response. Begonia Australis 19(3): 88-93.
Nayar, M. P. and Sastry, A. R. K. (eds.). (1990, reprinted 2000). Red Data Book of Indian Plants. Volume 3. Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India. 271 pp., 8 pls. [p. 82]
Rao, C. Kameswara, Geetha, B. L. and Suresh, Geetha. (2003). Red List of Threatened Vascular Plant Species in India: Compiled from the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. ENVIS Centre on Floral Diversity, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata. xxiv + 144 pp. [automatic download]
Uddin, A. (2007). Distribution and status of Indian Begonia L. species. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 31(3): 591-597.
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