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 botryoides Moonlight & Tebbitt Edinburgh Journal of Botany 74(2): 201 ( Tebbitt et al. 2017 ). – Type : ECUADOR – Prov. El Oro • Road Piñas-Santa Rosa , above El Placer ; [ 3°38′ S , 79°45′ W ]; 800–1000 m a.s.l. ; 15 Oct. 1977 ; G. Harling , U. Eliasson & L. Andersson 15551 ; holotype : GB ; isotypes : MO [ MO-2271396 ], US [ US00221535 ], S . Begonia albomaculata auct. non. C.DC.: L.B.Sm. & B.G.Schub., Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 8 (1): 37 ( Smith & Schubert 1952 ). Begonia albomaculata auct. non. C.DC.: L.B.Sm. & Wassh., Phytologia 44 (4): 246 ( Smith & Wasshausen 1979 ). Smith & Wasshausen (1984: 465 , pl. 1, 1985: 46). Notes Begonia albomaculata is a Peruvian species covered in this account. During the period Lyman Bradford Smith and his colleagues were working on Andean Begonia , the type of this species was unknown. As discussed in detail in Tebbitt et al. (2017) , a photograph of an Ecuadorian specimen, Camp E-618 (G) housed at F, was used as a de facto type . This specimen was erroneously identified by C.DC. as B. albomaculata but in fact represents a distantly related species, which was described in Tebbitt et al. (2017) as B. botryoides Moonlight & Tebbitt and is not found in Peru .