AN UPDATED CHECKLIST AND KEY TO THE SPECIES OF BOLIVIAN BEGONIA, INCLUDING ONE NEW SPECIES
Author
Moonlight, Peter
Author
Fuentes, Alfredo F.
text
Edinburgh Journal of Botany
2022
2022-08-18
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http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/ejb.2022.407
journal article
10.24823/EJB.2022.407
1747-0036
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1.2.
Begonia chrysantha
Tebbitt, Brittonia
67(3): 224, fig. 2 (2015).
– Type:
Bolivia
,
Chuquisaca Department
,
Prov. Belisario Boeto
,
Nuevo Mundo
,
18°59′S
,
64°17′W
,
2200 m
,
3 i 1996
,
J.R.I. Wood
10351 (
holotype
HSB
,
isotype
K
)
. M.C. Tebbitt, Tuberous Begonias, a Monograph of
Begonia
sect.
Australes
73 (2020).
Distribution
. Endemic to
Bolivia
and
Chuquisaca Department
.
Identification notes
.
Begonia chrysantha
is distinguished as a tuberous, caulescent species with notched, vivid golden-yellow tepals and a red indument. It can be distinguished from
Begonia heliantha
Tebbitt
by its non-glandular hairs and from
B. pearcei
by its acute leaf apices (vs acuminate leaf apices). It also differs in its hairs, which are red throughout or red at the apices, whereas those of
Begonia pearcei
are white.