Family: Begoniaceae

Habit: Herbs or vines.

Branch: Stems succulent with many nodes giving rise to adventitious roots in climbing species.

Leaves: Leaves simple, alternate, succulent; petioles succulent; lamina sometimes with variegation, the base often asymmetric, the margins entire, dentate, or lobed, the venation sometimes palmate.

Stipules: Stipules persistent, often membranaceous.

Inflorescence: Inflorescence a cyme, axillary.

Flowers: Flowers unisexual on same plant (plants monoecious), actinomorphic, subtended by bracts, white to pink; staminate flowers with 2 petaloid, valvate sepals and 2 valvate petals often shorter than the sepals, stamens numeruos, free or fused, the anthers 2-locular, basifixed, logitudinally dehiscent, rudimentary ovary often present; the pistillate flowers with 2-5 petaloid, imbricate tepals, the ovary inferior to semi-inferior, generally 3-locular, the styles 3.

Fruit: Fruit a loculicidal capsule, 1-3-winged.

Seeds: Seeds tiny, numerous per fruit.