4/7/2024 0 Comments White cyme type flowersandwicensis Oliver, endemic to the Hawaii Islands, and Begonia, with species widely distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the whole world, but Australia. In the past, this family of plants belonged to the order Violales with twelve genera, but recent phylogenetic, morphological and molecular studies have included the Begoniaceae in the order Cucurbitales (APG IV, 2016) with only two genera: the genus Hillebrandia with the only species H. Agardh (1824) comes from the genus Begonia dedicated by Charles Plumier (1646-1704), French botanist of the order of the Minims, to Michel Bégon (1638-1710), naturalist and high official of Louis XIV, intendant of the French West Indies and of France (Rochefort and La Rochelle. Begoniaceae family counts only 2 genera: Hillebrandia growing with one species, H sandwicensis here shown, in the humid and deep ravines of the Hawaiian rainforests, and Begonia that has more than 1870 species © Karl Magnacca
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