Begonia weddelliana A.DC

Moonlight, Peter & Fuentes, Alfredo F., 2022, AN UPDATED CHECKLIST AND KEY TO THE SPECIES OF BOLIVIAN BEGONIA, INCLUDING ONE NEW SPECIES, Edinburgh Journal of Botany 79 (407), pp. 1-66 : 16

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.24823/EJB.2022.407
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10555521
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scientific name	Begonia weddelliana A.DC
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1.11. Begonia weddelliana A.DC View in CoL ., Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. IV (11): 122 (1859).

– Type: Bolivia, [La Paz Department], Prov. Yungas , xii 1846, H.A. Weddell 4294 (lectotype P [ P00482210 , photograph F#38534 ] designated in: Revista Univ. (Cuzco) 33(87): 76 (1944) by Smith, L.B. & Schubert, B.G .; isolectotype G-DC ex P) .

L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Revista Univ. (Cuzco) 33(87): 76 (1944); R.C. Foster, Contr. Gray Herb. 184: 138 (1958); M.C. Tebbitt, Brittonia 65(2): 145 (2013); D.C. Wasshausen et al. in P.M. JØrgensen et al. (eds), Cat. Bolivia, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 129: 386 (2013); M.C. Tebbitt, Tuberous Begonias, a Monograph of Begonia sect. Australes 138 (2020).

Begonia davisii Hook.f. , Bot. Mag. 102, pl. 6252 (1876). – Type: Plate in J. D. Hooker, Bot. Mag., 93., t. 5680 (1867) (lectotype designated in: Brittonia 65: 145 (2013) by Tebbitt, M.C.).

L.B. Smith & B.G. Schubert, Revista Univ. (Cuzco) 33(87): 76 (1944); R.C. Foster, Contr. Gray Herb. 184: 137 (1958); M.C. Tebbitt, Brittonia 65(2): 145 (2013).

Distribution. Endemic to Bolivia and La Paz Department.

Nomenclatural notes. The protologue of this species stated only that it was based on material collected by Weddell. Smith & Schubert (1944a) cited the type as H.A. Weddell 4294 in Paris, which is an effective lectotypification.

Identification notes. Begonia weddelliana is one of two species of Begonia whose filaments are attached to the back of the anthers rather than to the base, sharing this character with B. herrerae . Both species have red-orange tepals with acute apices, but the margins of these tepals are entire in Begonia weddelliana rather than serrate, as in B. herrerae .