Begonia dipetala
Begonia dipetala is a thick-stemmed begonia from the Western Ghats of southern India. It is the type and only species of section Haagea, and was described from plants raised near Bombay in 1828. Herbarium labels place it on moist road banks and rocks in secondary forest in the monsoon hills, so it wants warm, humid, lightly shaded conditions with a drier, slower winter.
Where it grows wild
Specimens and field observations come from moist banks, roadside cuttings, rocks in secondary forest and plantation edges in the Western Ghats hill ranges, including Coorg, Agumbe, Silent Valley, Valparai, the Cardamom Hills and Courtallam. It grows as an upright, fleshy-stemmed herb on shaded, seasonally wet ground and rock.
Labelled elevations are scarce. A Sri Lankan record is from 550 m and one from Kandy District from 1,200 m, and Indian sites such as Agumbe, Valparai and Munnar run from roughly 600 to 1,600 m. Treat it as a mid-elevation plant of the monsoon hills.
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