Vestite small, weak, erect membranous scales, chaff

Lobed, veined or divided from a common point, like the fingers of a hand, with the sinuses between the lobes pointing to the umbo

Three or more primary veins diverging from the umbo on a leaf

When the primary leaf veins diverging from the umbo have secondary veins arranged along each primary, paired oppositely like a feather

Compound Leaf composed of many leaflets connected from a common point, in a palm-like manner

The blade is lobed or divided for halfway down or more

The various elements of the blade are free almost down to the base

Pimpled, covered with minute tubercles or excrescences of uneven size, and rather soft.

Papery, having the consistency of writing paper and quite opaque

Ovules that are borne on the inner sides of the ovary wall or on outgrowths of that wall

A leaf with Incisions or sinuses that cut to the inner third of the distance from the perimeter to the umbo, but not quite to the mid-vein or the petiole Ex. B. crassicaulis, B. mananjenbensis

Divided into very numerous segments, close and narrow, like the teeth of a comb

Split into three main divisions with two outer divisions forked into two smaller ones

Stalk supporting each single flower in a cluster (compare peduncle) View Illustration

Flowers having short floral stalks called pedicels

Main flower stalk supporting either a cluster or a solitary flower (compare pedicel) View Illustration

A leaf with a petiole attached to the lower surface of the blade (leaf) rather than the margin, or at the base of the leaf, which would be basifixed. Outline of the leaf shape is immaterial. View Illustration

Hanging downward, drooping

Feather-like veining

A plant grown from seed and reproducing, lives for two or more years

The collective term for both the petals and the sepals; in Begonia these two organs may look similar View Illustration

Used rather than tepal, to mean segments of both the calyx and the corolla

Regarding plant habit, at a right angle to the stem

Regarding stipules, how long the stipule remains attached to the stem

Regarding stipule persistence, neither withers or falls off after the leaf matures

One of the separate parts of the corolla (a group of petals); usually attractively colored or white View Illustration

Petal-like in color and shape, resembling a petal

Leaf stalk that provides support between the main stem and the blade (leaf), is usually wider where it joins the stem to provide strength at that point and has additional strengthening structures along its length to help support the blade

Top end of the petiole or leaf stalk, where the petiole attaches to the blade, that is, at the umbo

A covering, especially of hairs on the leaf stem

Having a petiolule

The stalk of a leaflet in a compound leaf

The study of cyclical and seasonal natural phenomena, especially as it relates to climate and plant and animal life

A flower that has petals that are characterized by having a dark color only on the edge of the petals, the petals are slightly serrated or fringed at the edge, as in many tuberous, Begonia flowers

Covered with long, soft, straight hairs, scattered not dense

Resembling a feather, having parts or branches arranged on each side of a common axis, a compound leaf having leaflets growing opposite each other in pairs on either side of the rachis or prolongation of the petiole

With one somewhat central midrib having secondary veins paired oppositely arranged along it, like a feather

Leaves with pinnate lobes that are not discrete and remain sufficiently connected to each other that they are not separate leaflets

A leaf shape where the lobes or clefts are nearly to the midrib in narrow divisions but do not form separate leaflets

The stigma, style, and ovary of a female flower; the female reproductive organs. The ovary supports a long style topped by a stigma, the part of the pistil that receives and germinates the pollen from the male flower, and the ovary, the enlarged basal portion of the pistil, is where the ovules or seed are produced View Illustration

Bearing a pistil or pistils, but lacking stamens; female flowers

The portion of the female flower’s ovary bearing the ovules (immature seeds). Plural is placentae

Each individual placenta is not divided

The arrangement or configuration of the placentae such as axile, entire and parietal

Ovules attached to the central axis or partitions of the ovary but each placenta is deeply divided into two

Ovules or seeds, attached to the central partitions of the ovary that has multiple locules or compartments with the placenta not lobed

Ovules are borne on the ovary wall or on outgrowths of the wall

Folded into pleats or furrows, usually lengthwise

Having various forms

Growing flat on the soil or ground

A seed, spore, or vegetative portion of a plant, such as an offshoot, that may produce a new plant

Laying flat

In monoecious plants, the maturing of anthers (on staminate flowers reach anthesis and shed pollen), before the stigma on pistillate flowers reach maturity

In monoecious plants, when the pistillate flowers are receptive to pollen before the pollen is shed from the staminate flowers

Resembling but not exactly dividing into two equal parts or branches

Densely covered with very short fine hair barely visible to the naked eye

Covered with soft short hairs; a general term of hairiness

Marked with dots, depressions, or translucent glands

Purple or becoming purple

Where surface has numerous uniform acute elevations, like pimples e.g., B. ‘Emerald Jewel’, or Foveolate where the surface is pitted with shallow distinct depressions e.g., B. ‘Tom Ment’