- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77202862-1
- Publication
- Phytotaxa
- Collation
- 420(3): 242
- Date of Publication
- 14 Oct 2019
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Begoniaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- E. Wahlsteen 16089
- Locality
- Kachin, Putao, Hkyenhpa, c. 550m
- Collection Date
- 25 Jun 2019
- Type Herbaria
- holotype LD
isotype US - Latitude
- 27° 40' 50" N
- Longitude
- 97° 23' 32" E
- Distribution Of Types
- Myanmar (Indo-China, Asia-Tropical)
- Type Remarks
- Specimens pressed from cultivated plants collected 15 November 2016.
Nomenclatural Notes
[epublished]
Remarks
doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.420.3.4 The species epithet is an anagram of iridescens and refers to the iridescent leaves of the species. The name Begonia iridescens is used by Dunn (1920: 110) for another Asian species.