TY -JOUR
AU -Daike Tian
AU -Thanh Son Hoang
AU -Wenguang Wang
AU -Bin Chen
TI -Six new species of Begonia from northern Vietnam
PY -2025
DA -2025-04-14
JO -Taiwania
VL -70
IS -2
SP -320
EP -330
UR -https://taiwania.ntu.edu.tw/abstract/2075
AB -Between the end of October and early November of 2023, we conducted a two-week-long survey of wild begonias in northern Vietnam, and found about 25 new taxa, in which, six new species are described and reported below with illustrations. They are B. bacsonensis D.K.Tian, T.S.Hoang & B.Chen, B. maciejewskii D.K.Tian, T.S.Hoang & W.G.Wang, B. sui T.S.Hoang, D.K.Tian & B.Chen, B. thanxaensis D.K.Tian, T.S.Hoang & W.G.Wang, and B. vonhaiensis T.S.Hoang, D.K.Tian & W.G.Wang, which belong to Begonia sect. Coelocentrum, and B. pyramidata D.K.Tian T.S.Hoang, W.G.Wang & B.Chen belonging to B. sect. Platycentrum. The new species are compared with their allied species and their conservation status is assigned to the Data Deficient Category on the IUCN Red List.
DO -10.6165/tai.2025.70.320