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Berengan (Begonia hirtella)

Dlium Berengan (Begonia hirtella)

Berengan (Begonia hirtella) is a species of plant in the Begoniaceae, creeping and climbing shrub with branched stalks, all hairy, flowers at the ends of long and branching stalks, growing horizontally and vertically on the ground or rocks in shady or damp places.

B. hirtella has a stem that is cylindrical, long, soft, branched, whitish green or reddish green and has long white hairs. The branching of the stem will become a long stalk and end at a leaf.



The leaves are elliptical, oblique, pulses in all directions forming deep trenches on the top and uneven margins. The upper surface is hairy, rough and green or yellowish in color. The lower surface is hairy, rough and lighter in color.

Flowers grow at the ends of long, branchy stalks. The flower buds are triangular, flat and the surface has a bright green color. The flowers bloom white or yellowish green with a bright yellow sari in the center.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Cucurbitales
Family: Begoniaceae
Genus: Begonia L. in Sp. Pl.: 1056 (1753)
Section: Doratometra
Species: Begonia hirtella Link in Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 2: 296 (1822)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Begonia albidosetulosa Hassk. in Hort. Bogor. Descr.: 313 (1858)
Begonia brasila A.DC. in Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 7: 295 (1836)
Begonia brasiliana Schrank ex Steud. in Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2. 1: 193 (1840)
Begonia ciliata Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt, A.J.A.Bonpland & C.S.Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. 7: 136 (1824)
Begonia ciliata var. nana Klotzsch ex A.DC. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Bras. 4(1): 345 (1861)
Begonia dasypoda Meisn. ex A.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1): 299 (1864)
Begonia diversifolia var. nana Walp. in Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 19(Suppl. 1): 408 (1843)
Begonia herteri Irmsch. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 76: 94 (1953)
Begonia hirtella var. nana A.DC. (1863)
Begonia obliqua Vell. in Fl. Flumin. 10: t. 48 (1831)
Begonia villosa Lindl. in Edwards's Bot. Reg. 15: t. 1252 (1829)

PUBLICATIONS

Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.

Aung, Y.L., Aung, M.H., Tan, Y. & Jin, X. (2025). An updated checklist of vascular plants of Myanmar. PhytoKeys 261: 135-364.

Fairhurst, W. (2004). Flowering Plants of Ascension island: 1-300. Higham Press, Shirland, Alfreton, England.

Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2015). Flora of North America North of Mexico 6: 1-468. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.

Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.

Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.

Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Moonlight, P.W., Jara-Muñoz, O.A., Purvis, D.A., Delves, J., Allen, J.P., & Reynel, C. (2023). The genus Begonia (Begoniaceae) in Peru. European Journal of Taxonomy 881: 1-334.

Wagner, W.L., Herbst, D.R. & Sohmer, S.H. (1999). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i, rev. ed., 1: 1-988. University of Hawai'i Press, Bishop Museum Press.

Whistler, W.A. (2022). Flora of Samoa Flowering Plants: 1-930. National Tropical Botanicl Garden. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

VERNACULAR NAME

Chinese (simplified): 巴西秋海棠
Chinese (traditional): 短毛秋海棠 - 巴西秋海棠
English: Berengan, Bearded begonia
Hong Kong: 巴西秋海棠
Indonesia: Berengan
Java: Berengan
Sulawesi: Riang-riang
Sumatera: Biring-biring
Sunda: Hariang
Taiwan: 巴西秋海棠 - 短毛秋海棠

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