Begonia consobrina
An Ecuadorian Begonia described by Irmscher in 1937, recorded on the eastern Andean slope (Napo, Tungurahua, Pastaza) at about 650-2,350 m. No published habitat detail was reachable, so conditions come from the measured wet premontane climate and how Andean begonias grow.
Where it grows wild
No habitat notes were found. Records fall in very wet premontane and lower montane forest on the Amazonian slope of the Andes, where begonias typically grow on shaded wet banks, rocks and stream edges.
Wild records span 650-2,349 m with a median of 1,400 m.
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