The general appearance, characteristic form, or mode of growth of a plant

Environmental circumstances or kind place where a plant grows

A triangular, arrowhead shape with the basal lobes turned slightly flaring outward making the base look truncate

Plants with no persistent woody stems above ground including many perennials and nearly all annuals and biennials

Specimen Collection of dried plants used for botanical study

A flower containing reproductive parts of both male and female flowers

A group of hybrid begonias derived from a cross of a winter flowering B. socotrana and a summer flowering tuberous Begonia tuberhybrida, often called Elatior begonias (the Elatior strain is now largely forgotten), but now the name Rieger applies to them all

Covered with long erect stiff hairs

Minutely hirsute

Bearing long, dense, erect harshly stiff or rigid hairs, but somewhat flexuous, like setose but more dense

The single specimen designated as the type of a species by the original author at the time the species name and description was published

Capped, as in Begonia anthers where tissue from the sides of the pollen sac forms a cap or hood over the point of dehiscence, where the content or pollen is released

Having the shape of either of the ends of a new moon; same as horned

Thin and translucent plant parts such as the margins of leaves, sepals and bracts

The progeny resulting from cross-fertilization of two genetically different individuals that may be two different cultivars or two different species or the selfing of a cultivar