Begonia hemsleyana
A begonia of submontane monsoon forest in southeastern Yunnan, southwestern Guangxi and northern Indochina, growing at about 850–1550 m. Kew describes it as a rhizomatous geophyte, and it is listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN. Its climate has warm, very wet summers and cool, drier but still misty winters, so it does best with a distinct cool winter rest.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium labels describe primary evergreen broad-leaved wet submontane forest. It grows on steep rocky slopes over basalt, granite, quartzite or eroded limestone, on soil slopes along brooks, and in stream canyons in forest with a dense herb layer. It grows in the shaded forest understory.
Recorded at 850–1550 m, median about 1200 m, from 37 records.
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