Begonia pseudoviola
A tiny, endangered forest-floor begonia from western Cameroon, only 4-15 cm tall, with dark bronze to almost black leaves bearing erect white hairs above and purple undersides, and yellow flowers tinged red. It grows in permanent shade on mossy, dripping rock faces and on the ground beside rocky forest streams at about 400-1,000 m. It is a classic terrarium begonia: warm, very humid, deep shade.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels describe it growing in clumps on the forest floor near a rocky mountain stream (Bechati, Lebialem), on a mossy, nearly vertical, humid rock face in permanent shade by a creek on a steep forested slope (Dschang to Melong road), at the base of a tree in disturbed, seasonally flooded lowland evergreen forest, and once on a dead tree (Kupe-Muanenguba). It is a streamside and rock-face herb of evergreen forest.
Recorded at about 400-1,000 m: 400 m at Bechati, 760-850 m at Ngomboku (Kupe-Muanenguba) and 1,000 m on the Dschang-Melong road.
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