Augustia Klotzsch in Monatsb. Berl. Acad. 124 (Maerz 1854); et Abh. Akad. Berl. 80. t. 8.B. 1854.
Barya Klotzsch in Monatsb. Berl. Acad. 122 (Maerz 1854); et in Abh. Akad. Berl. 22. t.2, B. 1854.
Begoniella Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. 23: 513. 1873.
Diploclinium Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 319. 1847.
Platycentrum Klotzsch in Abh. Akad. Berl. 123. t. 11 B. 1854 (1855)
Reichenheimia Klotzsch in Abh. Akad. Berl. 54. t. 4A. 1854 (1855)
Symbegonia Warb. in Engl. & Prantl, Naturl. Pflanzenfam 3(6a): 149. 1894.
Mostly perennial herbs, sappy and succulent, stemless or caulesent. stems swollen at nodes, erect, creeping or scandent. Leaves fleshy, cauline or from rhizomes or tuber, alternate, distichous, generally long-petiolate, stipulate, simple, ovate-acuminate, orbicular or pelate in outline, mostly caodate at base and often very unequal-sided or obliquely auriculate and strongly asymmetrical, entire or more or less with irregularly incised, digitately divided, laciniate, dentate or lobed margins, palmately or pinnately nerved. Stipule 2 to each leaf, free, membranaceous, often caducous, or semipersistent. Flowers monoecious, mostly in clusters of axillary cymes; peduncle axillary, divided into dichotomous cymes. staminate flowers large in number and usually opening first, actionmorphic or often zygomorphic, showy and often of bright colors, mostly pink, white or reddish; tepals 2-4, petal like, opposite, valvate, white or colored. Stamens numerous, in many whorls forming a dense capitulum; filaments free or variously connate; anther 2-locular, basifixed, continuous with filament, opening by longitudinal slits, rarely by pores; connectives mostly prolonged. Pistillate flowers with tepal more or less as on the staminate, lager, imbricate; ovary inferior, often 3-locular, rarely 2-or 4- to 5-locular, mostly 3-angular or winged, often colored, one wing often strongly developed; styles mostly as many as ovary-loculi, free or connate at base, 2-lobed or branched; stigmas prominent, oddly bent or spirally twisted like a corkscrew, papillose nearly all ovary; placentas mostly axile; ovules many in each loculus, anatropous, inserted on placentas adnate to axil of ovary, rarely parietal. Fruit mostly a capsule, loculicidal or irregularly dehiscent, unequally 3-winged, or sometimes baccate. Seeds minute and very numerous, with scanty or no endosperm; embryo straight.
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