Begonia chlorosticta; photograph Anderson Boyrakz Boboy, CC BY-SA, via GBIF

CC BY-SAAnderson Boyrakz Boboy, CC BY-SA, via GBIF

Begonia chlorosticta Sands

Begoniaceae · Borneo

No habitat climate

About the genus · Begonia

Begonia is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Begoniaceae. The genus contains more than 2,000 different plant species, distributed primarily across tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, and Central and South America, with Africa considered the center of origin. Some species are commonly grown indoors as ornamental houseplants in cooler climates, or cultivated outside in summertime for their bright colorful flowers, which have petals but no sepals.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Begonia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 2 of the 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeBorneo · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).

Kew's description“wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Other Begonia 279 in the reference

Begonia abdullahpieei Begoniaceae

Begonia acerifolia Maple-leaved begonia Photo: CC BY, Yuri Sofronov

Begonia acetosa Ruby begonia Photo: CC0, Daderot Begonia acetosella Begoniaceae

Begonia acida Begoniaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Michael Wolf

Begonia aconitifolia Aconite Leaved Begonia Photo: CC BY-SA, rubens curvelo

Begonia acutifolia Begoniaceae Photo: CC BY, Cliff from I now live in Arlington, VA… Begonia albomaculata Begoniaceae Begonia × albopicta Begoniaceae Begonia alice-clarkiae Begoniaceae Begonia almedana Begoniaceae Begonia amphioxus Begoniaceae all 280 ›

Names & registers

GBIF POWO IPNI WFO Wikidata

The record

Family

Begoniaceae

Described by

Sands

Native to

Borneo

Wild records

3 in range · 3 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21

GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21

GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21

GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21

WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04

GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21

Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope

Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21

Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21

iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked

iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked

iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked

GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21

Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21

OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.