Begonia hirsuta

Moonlight, P. W. & Jara-Muñoz, A., 2017, A revision and recircumscription of Begonia Section Pilderia including one new species, Phytotaxa 307 (1), pp. 1-22 : 21

Begonia hirsuta herb. Ruiz ex Klotzsch nom. rej.

Ber. Berkanntm. Verh. Konigl. Presuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854: 127 (1854). = Pilderia hirsuta Klotzsch nom. nud., Ber. Berkanntm. Verh. Konigl. Presuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854: 127 (1854). = Begonia pavoniana A.DC., Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. 4, 11: 142 (1859). Type: PERÚ. 1778, Ruiz & Pavón s.n. (lectotype (here designated) B, photo F [F0BN020808]).

Klotzsch’s original description of the genus Pilderia included P. hirsuta Klotzsch nom. nud. as a constituent taxon including the rejected name Begonia hirsuta herb. Ruiz ex Klotzsch. Specimens annotated by Ruiz as “ B. hirsuta del Perú ” were later treated by A.L.L.P. de Candolle as the type of B. pavoniana A.DC. , which has since been shown to be synonymous with B. humilis Dryand and in B. sect. Doratometra ( Schulz 1911) . This species and section are distantly related to B. sect. Pilderia (see Fig. 1 ).

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FIGURE 1. 50% majority rule consensus tree of MrBayes analysis of Neotropical Clade 2 (NC2) of Begonia. Asterisks indicate posterior clade probabilities <0.85.