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coccinea

Taxon

Begonia coccinea Hook.

Protologue Bot. Mag. 69: t. 3990. 1843BHLIPNI
AcceptedGBIF
Predicted not threatened
Begonia coccinea 061669806--China. Hubei. Wuhan Botanical Garden. Glasshouse. 16 Apr 07. 240.jpg

Begonia coccinea 061669806--China. Hubei. Wuhan Botanical Garden. Glasshouse. 16 Apr 07. 240.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Begonia coccinea 061669806--China. Hubei. Wuhan Botanical Garden. Glasshouse. 16 Apr 07. 241.jpg

Begonia coccinea 061669806--China. Hubei. Wuhan Botanical Garden. Glasshouse. 16 Apr 07. 241.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Begonia coccinea, 061669806--China. Hubei. Wuhan Botanical Garden. Glasshouse. 16 Apr 07. 226.jpg

Begonia coccinea, 061669806--China. Hubei. Wuhan Botanical Garden. Glasshouse. 16 Apr 07. 226.jpg

By Christopher Davidson

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Endemic to Brazil Southeast; introduced into Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad-Tobago (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Showing the global range from POWO; no georeferenced specimens for this taxon.

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

061669806

April 16, 2007

Location

China, Hubei (Wuhan Botanical Garden)

Location Remarks

Moshan, Wuchang, City of Wuhan

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Cucurbitales

Family

Begoniaceae

Genus

Begonia

Specific Epithet

coccinea

Authorship

Hook.

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIFWFOPOWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 3.1

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.4

Global rank

#120,993 of 335,497

Top 37%

Extinction probability

12%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →