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Perennial or occasionally annual herbs, sometimes suffructescent and even forming poorly branched subshrubs up to 4 m tall; the species monoecious, exceptionally dioecious, terrestrial or epiphytic, evergreen or in some tuberous species with a dormant period devoid of aerial parts or very rarely the plants with deciduous leaves; stems prostrate, erect, reclinate, scrambling or rarely climbing with patent branches or with aerial roots, often rhizomatous and rooting at the nodes, herbaceous, succulent or ligneous; or the plants tuberous and short-stemmed or acaulescent; trichomes simple, stellate or scaly, rarely plants completely glabrous.

Begoniaceae Bercht. & J. Presl (1820), nom. cons.

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de Wilde, J.J.F.E. (2010). Begoniaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (eds) Flowering Plants. Eudicots. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14397-7_5

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