Begonia botryoides Moonlight & Tebbitt

Moonlight, Peter. W., Jara-Muñoz, Orlando A., Purvis, David A., Delves, Jay, Allen, Josh P. & Reynel, Carlos, 2023, The genus Begonia (Begoniaceae) in Peru, European Journal of Taxonomy 881, pp. 1-334 : 303

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.