The genus Begonia (Begoniaceae) in Peru Author Moonlight, Peter. W. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20 A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH 3 5 LR, Scotland, UK. & Botany Department, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. moonligp@tcd.ie Author Jara-Muñoz, Orlando A. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá D. C., Colombia. oajaram@unal.edu.co Author Purvis, David A. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20 A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH 3 5 LR, Scotland, UK. dpurvis@rbge.org.uk Author Delves, Jay Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20 A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH 3 5 LR, Scotland, UK. j.delves@westernsydney.edu.au Author Allen, Josh P. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20 A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH 3 5 LR, Scotland, UK. myrmeciaman@gmail.com Author Reynel, Carlos Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional Agraria-La Molina, Lima 12, Peru. reynel@lamolina.edu.pe text European Journal of Taxonomy 2023 2023-07-18 881 1 334 http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.881.2175 journal article https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.881.2175 2118-9773 8178280 Begonia cinnabarina Hook. Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 75: t. 4483 ( Hooker 1849 ). – Type : lectotype : plate in Hook., Curtis’s Botanical Magazine 75: t. 4883 ( Hooker 1849 ), designated by Tebbitt et al. (2018b: 252) . Smith & Schubert (1944: 78) . Notes Begonia cinnabarina Hook. is widely distributed in Bolivia with a few collections from northern Argentina ( Tebbitt et al. 2018b ). In their 1941 account for the Flora of Peru ( Smith & Schubert 1941a ), Lyman Bradford Smith and Bernice G. Schubert cite Peruvian material collected by Clarke as B. cinnabarina . We have not seen any material collected by anyone named Clarke from Peru but suspect any such material, if it exists, was collected in Bolivia .